Both, not either. The inference attack in the post is the tool that catalogs the people who push back. Staying unlinkable is how "no authority over me" actually works at the scale one person controls. Deanonymizing the powerful and refusing to be deanonymized yourself are the same fight, not opposite directions.
Staab et al. (ICLR 2024, peer-reviewed) showed language models infer location, income, and sex from plain text at up to 85% top-1. A 2026 preprint (Lermen et al.) ran it as an agent and matched 67% of Hacker News users to their real LinkedIn at 90% precision, for 1 to 4 dollars per person.
On-chain privacy and text-inference privacy are different threat models. CoinJoin, Silent Payments, and Monero protect the transaction graph. They do nothing for the forum posts, support requests, and replies that link your pseudonym to you. If you run a Bitcoin pseudonym, the text OPSEC is the half the privacy-coin conversation usually skips.
The post walks the three-stage attack chain (extract, search, verify) and the compartmentation playbook that breaks it.
Instead of trying to de-anonymize y LN payments try to de-anonymize politicians corruption.
Seriously now, people are focusing on the wrong direction
Both, not either. The inference attack in the post is the tool that catalogs the people who push back. Staying unlinkable is how "no authority over me" actually works at the scale one person controls. Deanonymizing the powerful and refusing to be deanonymized yourself are the same fight, not opposite directions.
use LN
Staab et al. (ICLR 2024, peer-reviewed) showed language models infer location, income, and sex from plain text at up to 85% top-1. A 2026 preprint (Lermen et al.) ran it as an agent and matched 67% of Hacker News users to their real LinkedIn at 90% precision, for 1 to 4 dollars per person.
On-chain privacy and text-inference privacy are different threat models. CoinJoin, Silent Payments, and Monero protect the transaction graph. They do nothing for the forum posts, support requests, and replies that link your pseudonym to you. If you run a Bitcoin pseudonym, the text OPSEC is the half the privacy-coin conversation usually skips.
The post walks the three-stage attack chain (extract, search, verify) and the compartmentation playbook that breaks it.
nice try FED