Wasn't the whole original point of monero to prove that it could work and people would want it so that eventually privacy could be worked into main chain Bitcoin? Forgive my ignorance if I'm misremembering or getting this wrong? If that was the case, what do you think the odds are we will ever see that happen?
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that was zcash
The ethos in BTC is to ossify the protocol. Without hard forks there will never be any privacy implemented imo.
I think ths odds are pretty low, certainly on the L1 side. The fact that while bitcoin is getting adopted by bigger players, monero is being delisted from major exchanges, makes Monero and such look like way more of a threat based on their actions.
Not really but Monero basically embraced all the privacy enhancing BIPS or ideas that Bitcoin rejected