diff --git a/ch14_applications.adoc b/ch14_applications.adoc index a88a98db..97eb7707 100644 --- a/ch14_applications.adoc +++ b/ch14_applications.adoc @@ -1151,23 +1151,28 @@ scheme called https://oreil.ly/fuCiK[Sphinx]. This routing protocol ensures that a payment sender can construct and communicate a path through the LN such that: -- Intermediate nodes can verify and decrypt their portion of route - information and find the next hop. +++++ +
Unlike Tor (an onion-routed anonymization protocol on the internet), there are no "exit nodes" that can be placed under surveillance. The payments do not need to be transmitted to the Bitcoin blockchain; the - nodes just update channel balances. + nodes just update channel balances.
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