monero people are irritating, they are completely blind to the auditing problem
the coinjoiners are also very irritating no matter which of the factions you look at, because fundamentally they all have errors in their game theory that weakens the actual purpose of the exercise
probably the solution exists in another domain waiting for a polymath to stumble on it... the mechanisms of AI's simulation of human memory seem like an area that should be examined, as it is stubbonly nondeterministic
just as the solution to a decentralised, unbreakable history was found with bitcoin was remarkably simple, so will the privacy problem be simple
there is a saying about art, it's not when there's nothing left to add, but when there's nothing left to take away, that the masterpiece is complete
