Because Bitcoin is #public ledger .. no transactions are supposed to be private .. that is the "entire" point ..
Most of the transactions on Bitcoin network will be in millions of dollars ( if not billions ) ..it is a network to move big money ..between corporations and sovereigns .. the whole point is these txns should be open to everyone ..
We will buy coffee on lightning or fedimint .. you can make it as private as you want ..
Yes, you're right it is a transparent public ledger. In your previous reply you are confusing anonymity with privacy. They are two different concepts. One is hiding the identity of someone. The other is hiding the actions of someone. You can have one without the other.
Lol, Bitcoin is not only a corporation-to-corporation, business-to-business, or nation-to-nation protocol. It was supposed to be PEER-2-PEER electronic cash. Read the white paper please.
Lightning is not fully private even in theory, but more importantly it is not in private practice.
Fedimints are great privacy but sacrifice sovereignty by losing self custody which is a massive pillar of Bitcoin.
If satoshi is alive and moved any of his bitcoins we would all see it. And from there, it would be possible for someone to eventually track down his IP address or the IP address of the the sent address holder (once they spend it, and if not them, the next person in the chain). And there would be a lot of motivation for block chain analysis experts to do this too. To avoid this, statoshi would (and perhaps is) going to have to censor himself.
I guess Satoshi would know how to make her IP private if she wanted to .. I mean such tools are already there .. nothing more needs to be done on Bitcoin software ..
There are tools for every scope and every need .. Bitcoin is a public ledger , it needs to be best public ledger ( as it is ) . It need not be everything to everyone ..
privacy is a personal choice and those who need it can figure it out
