Shitcoins are irrelevant inflationary scams.
Anyone who's interested in privacy can use LN, cashu, chaumian coins, private mints and whatnot.
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Cashu is the worst for self sovereignty. You trust that the mint doesn't make more Ecash than Bitcoin in reserves and that they don't run away with the coins. Lightning takes time to set up and tends to centralize to pools of liquidity.
oh so the solution to the lack of onchain privacy is give up custody.
cool cool
The main lesson should be that we simply can't have every benefit in any tool. It isnt possible right now. That's why I'm less inclined to alienate people simply because they use different tools than me. And it isnt like a Bitcoiner can't use Monero ever. Nor does one need to give up custody of their entire stack to use ecash or whatever. People draw strict lines and I don't see the benefit of it. Ideally, we will end up with many tools that are easy to switch between for different purposes.
I'm not in the business of telling "anyone" what to do. I don't use Monero anymore, but I don't really care if anyone does. People should use whichever tool they feel is the best for whatever they are trying to do. For some people, that's Monero.
If someone asks my opinion, then I'll gladly share what I do or think, but I see no value in alienating people simply because they use an additional tool that I don't. It's dumb and senseless, especially if they are good faith companions. Obviously there are trolls and bad actors in every community. But I think most are not. We can share ideas without alienating one another.