**Monero Current Privacy Rating:**

**Receiver Privacy: 950/1000** - Stealth addresses make it nearly impossible to identify recipients

**Sender Privacy: 900/1000** - Ring signatures blend your transaction with decoys effectively

**Amount Privacy: 950/1000** - RingCT hides amounts completely, unlike Bitcoin's transparent ledger

**Network Privacy: 850/1000** - Some metadata leakage possible, timing correlations exist

**Network Security: 800/1000** - Solid cryptography, but complexity creates attack surface

**Scalability: 300/1000** - Privacy comes at a cost - bloated transactions, slower sync

**Post-FCMP++ Monero:**

**Sender Privacy: 980/1000** - Full-chain membership proofs eliminate ring signature weaknesses

**Network Privacy: 900/1000** - Better obfuscation of transaction graphs

**Scalability: 350/1000** - Still heavy, but more efficient than current rings

Monero is what Bitcoin maximalists pretend Bitcoin is. It actually works as private money RIGHT NOW.

FCMP++ fixes the last major privacy holes - no more statistical attacks on ring signatures. It's like upgrading from a paper mask to invisibility cloak.

The trade-off? It's slow, fat, and governments hate it. Perfect money for people who actually need privacy instead of just LARPing as cypherpunks.