Monero can't verify their supply. Smaller group of people use monero so privacy isn't as good as you think.
Unannounced lightning channels are private.
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Dude first off privacy is different from anonymity. Bitcoin is a public blockchain. All connections and amounts are visible to anyone in the world. Can't ever truly be private.
Second, do you think all of the Bitcoin network is your anonymity set? No, your anon set is the peers that actively particpate in your coinjoin rounds. Which is like what? 0.000000001% of users? Your psuedonymity is not as good as you think.
Unannounced lightning channels are not private from anyone you are interacting with that sends to you. Are you just never going to recieve ever?
" “We call private channels 'private' but they are really not, they are more like unannounced channels,” Giorgio said, adding that there are currently ways to exploit the Lightning Network that enable a node to discover an unannounced private channel."
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/state-of-bitcoin-lightning-network-privacy
Even worse, no one does this anyway, 95% of lightning users are on custodial wallets like WoS (they can see everything). And the remaining are trusting Phoenix servers that aren't private either.
https://phoenix.acinq.co/faq#how-private-are-my-payments-on-phoenix
You rely on a node to verify Bitcoin supply just like Monero.
Don't pretend like you take advantage of Bitcoin's simple transparency to audit. Did you make sure every single transaction in 817,000+ blocks inputs = outputs? No, you didnt and niether does any Bitcoiner. You just rely on your node to verify supply for you like any Monero user.
There's literally no difference in practice.
Privacy on bitcoin is good enough if you know what you're doing. Unannounced LN channels have hops in between, there are trampoline routing too. You don't need to sh$tcoin.
monero supply is verifyable. check yourself before you rekk yourself.
moneroinflation.com
Inflation bugs get discovered every now & then in monero.
Stick with bitcoin
I guess you don't know about the early days of Bitcoin where it needed a hardfork because of a massive inflation bug
Or the 2018 hidden inflation bug that was secretly fixed and luckily never exploited thanks to one single good samaritan anon AKA transparency wouldn't have done anything if he decided to exploit it. Hardforking would screw over anyone who gave away real goods and services for the fake bitcoin and doing nothing would break 21 million meme. Both would be devastating to user confidence. No good solution.
I know about it.
But monero has had a bunch, more likely to be discovered too.
Stop using monero bro, there are many reasons why its a sh$tcoin
Show us these "bunch". Just because it's ostensibly easier to discover certain inflation bugs on Bitcoin doesn't mean you can do anything about them once they're exploited. Which I'm still not sure you understand.
You can't even trust yourself to audit, but you expect others are doing that for you. No one is checking the blockchain for you bro. They're just running a node and paying no attention like every Bitcoiner user.
If there are good reasons out there for not using Monero you are doing a terrible job of showing us
