VPN-Style Privacy for Lightning
Now remember that Spark is not a blockchain. It's not a public thing where anyone can join a node in and see all the transactions. It's something where only the Spark operators actually have visibility into transactions, but they had chosen to publish a Block Explorer because they wanted people to be able to see transactions to be more comfortable with it. Obviously, I don't love that. I would prefer they just didn't publish anything. But the main differences in cake are that, a, we don't expose your Spark address in your Bolt 11 invoices intentionally so that no one can see that and look it up. But b, we also opt out of that publishing of transactions to the the Spark Block Explorer. So the, like, the really easy way to explain Spark privacy is essentially you have VPN style privacy when it comes to your transactions. The Spark operators themselves can see your transactions and the details of those transactions,
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