If you really want private transactions with bitcoin there's always sneakernet. They figured out a clever way to do it at opendime.com.
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Never heard of this. Anything else I should know before I look into it?
No. You should just look into it.
This is a step backwards. Ooendimes are great for gifts and satscards also for a cheaper alternative but you've got to sweep those funds sometime and when you do you have to isolate those UTXOs as you are faced with the same privacy issues are before.
This is why bitcoin is a near perfect SoV and a far from perfect MoE.
Or you could just spend the loaded opendimes/satscards like old fashioned paper money. I guess there's a lack of privacy insofar as having to meet whomever you're transacting with face to face, but at least there's no record of the transaction.
It's really the cost. All my ooendimes are curios and I collect them and the satcards for the art element. Opendimes is around $15 iirc?
This is why #monero just works.
Dynamic block sizing so tx fees are always a few picos at most. As long as you have some churn in your wallet, you are 2min confirmation and then you're done.
Finally I do a heap of research and work on the DNMs and there isn't a single market in 2023 that accepts bitcoin anymore. It's a fully #monero payment environment out there in the digital wild west and that's pretty telling.
Should be easy as using cash. If we going to declare btc better money then it should be at least private and easy to use as cash imo.
IMO it will never be private and will never rival cash. I stack coins everyday but always as a store of value. Lightning has its uses such as zaps and that's crazy fun but if I pay for anything that I need privacy the my go to is #monero every time.
I am going to keep complaining maybe something will happen.
Yes, they are expensive enough that they're just novelties, but the concept is correct.