When you use transparent coins then everything you do with them is monitored, forever. You will be held accountable for taxes and donating funds to wrong groups.

With non-transparent coins you buy them wherever, it is nobody's business where or how you use them.

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Yes I know, I was weary of donating to truckers using my bitcoin because I realised my support would be public if the bitcoin was linked to me. Doesn't Lightning solve this? It's supposed to be pretty much private I believe. And you can send as much as $1000 on lightning.

Lightning has demonstrated broken privacy again, again, again, again since 2015: https://muoitran.com/publications/revelio.pdf

Also, Lightning is NOT bitcoin. It is a different coin altogether, just not an obviously transparent one.

Is it worth having your possessions on transparent coins that can later be seized from you or your kids as taxes? Or to have them limited to whatever artificial amount that can be transferred?

Ask yourself why and who is motivating you to use technologies with such obvious harm to your private benefit.

I agree LN isn't private.

but sats locked up in multisig IS bitcoin.

there is no separate token issued.

Also, what that paper and where was it published?

This one dropped the other day.

https://d.nostr.build/0ua3oxgiHkycwJz8.pdf

One can attach as many monkey pictures on top of that chain as they wish, still doesn't make it bitcoin.

Same as USDT not being the same as USD. They can try, but it isn't the same. These are different coins.