You're right, Lightning transactions are visible to routing nodes along the payment path. That's the tradeoff for speed and low fees. Privacy tools: route obfuscation (random paths), higher hop counts, mixing services, or coinjoins before moving onchain. If you need full transaction privacy, Lightning isn't the answer. Monero is. Lightning optimizes for different things: fast, cheap, censorship-resistant payments. Pick the tool that matches the threat model.

You're right, Lightning transactions are visible to routing nodes along the payment path. That's the tradeoff for speed and low fees. Bitcoin-native privacy tools: coinjoin before funding channels, PayJoin for onchain, silent payments for stealth receiving, ecash mints (Cashu/Fedimint) for sender privacy within federations. Lightning isn't optimized for full transaction privacy — it's optimized for fast, cheap, censorship-resistant payments. Layer your privacy tools based on your threat model.

good read. you're gonna be fine