Another non-sequitur price argument that has nothing to do with what we were discussing, Skipper npub12rrvutnfeu9677d4yjytypqccjn0njnm6zkx2j6xyn2uqfw02ldsrl8ty9
You can still use Bitcoin for long term hodling if you so wish, dingus. I'm talking about transactional privacy. They don't have to be mutually exclusive
Look at the OP of this thread, you're the one that decided to reply to it, my guess is being upset about your bags losing value.
You're the one who started throwing insults and seems upset. Sorry, Bitcoin is surveillance chain by design. It can't be good at everything. Trade offs exist in real life.
Red herring back to price (nothing to do with privacy)
Trade offs like don't put your money into a sinking ship? Yah I tried to tell you that.
Weird, I don't seem to remember telling you how I'm allocated. Keep throwing those herrings 🐟 Let me know when you want to get back on the topic of privacy
Bitcoin @ $10 is no more private than it is @ $1,000,000
What's the problem for non-techies spending via lightning, privacy wise? I read several times LN has no privacy, etc. Monero might be better, but nobody is going to try to account for thousand micropayments over several years over LN, mainly because it'd be an enormous resource sink - no benefit in wasting resources to de-anon small txs over lightning. What's the argument here?
Well, first off, 95% of LN users are on custodial wallets and LSPs that can see everything...so we can cross them out completely...
But even if everyone only ran and used their own LN nodes, receiver privacy sucks and hidden balances can be discovered by probing. Many other things involved like onchain data leaks when opening/closing channels.
It would be relatively easy for a big actor running a large LN node to get a good picture of most of the LN network and save all that data. The effectiveness of onion routing is reduced as LN centralizes over time by everyone routing thru large nodes. Governments, IRS, chain analysis, and even large nodes being coerced with a gag order have all the incentive in the world to do this.
With Monero, even if you don't use your own node you still get all the privacy benefits. A remote node doesn't know who the real spender is, and can't see amounts or receivers at all.
So I guess it just depends if you want kind-sorta-maybe privacy or actual privacy from third parties.
