1) Fair, saying governments directly control Qubic is a shortcut. My point was that seeing Monero being attacked hints that Monero as a MoE is enough of a threat to fiat. But no, the design (referring to ASIC resistance I suppose) is not 'weak', Monero is simply not as mature as Bitcoin (especially in terms of hashrate).

2) I know I rely on a centralized group of devs to maintain & update Monero's Codebase. If they go rogue, (like core devs did -wink wink-), I'lll deny the abusive consensus changes. Tail emissions can change any time there is a consensus to (not anytime soon then). Once again, I do agree BTC is a superior store of value to XMR because of the inflation tail emissions it injects in the supply cap. But is BTC better as an MoE? I'm less positive about that.

3) Thanks for the podcast. From what i've listened, most of the points made in the video are aligned with mine: Privacy in Bitcoin is possible, but way harder to achieve.