The RingCT proof is clever, but it forces trust in way more complex crypto (with a bigger attack surface and past bugs) just to hide everything.

Trust emerges from transparency full stop. Bitcoin’s transparency lets anyone verify no inflation or fraud, trust-minimized, battle-tested, and enables real emergent security.

On decentralization: there were dozens of delistings/removals across various exchanges and jurisdictions in 2024–2025 (Kraken in multiple regions, Binance zones, OKX, etc.), ~1/3 the nodes Bitcoin has, far fewer publicly reachable nodes and constant regulatory targeting. That’s not more decentralized, that’s fragile in practice.

Privacy on L2 (Lightning ecash, Ark) gives the benefits without mandatory opacity’s downsides.

Bitcoiners aren’t “nocoiners”. We trust the minimal primitives that have secured trillions flawlessly. Monero trusts newer, heavier ones that invite bans and limit scalability. People can trust Bitcoin’s model for a reason. They can provably trust bitcoin from inside and outside 24/7/365.

Privacy on L2 (Lightning ecash, Ark) gives the benefits without mandatory opacity’s downsides.