This aligns fine with Bitcoin...the only time privacy becomes annulled in BTC is when we have too much KYC. Otherwise it's just numbers assigned to addresses with no way for an external person to pull back the veil and see who specifically owns what. I can see monero fans jumping on this quote though.
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If you pay someone with Bitcoin you also have privacy issues.
That's why collaborative transactions are so important - I remember someone tracing back through the chain from a tx I sent them once saying to me "I didn't realise you'd received that much"...which was a pain, but I got away with it by telling them they'd gone to far back and that was never mine.
The underlying problem I see is that Bitcoin developers are not interested in privacy, it would be very naive to think that Bitcoin developers are no longer under the influence of some three-letter agency.
There's a definite argument to be made for focusing on privacy in Bitcoin, once we exit fiat rails altogether though it'll be kind of moot, since that's the only place they can really screw us. Once the coin is just moving from one party to another and never going near an exchange there's next to fuck all they can do without putting in serious effort, which would make people aware of what's happening anyway
This is copium.
You always have zero privacy with onchain bitcoin, everything you do is forever recorded and public.
You get some pseudo-anonymity, which as all but the maxiest of maxis and the normiest of normies have realized by now is not enough, was never enough, and will never be enough.
Hal Finney was right.
Oh sweet summer child...
Yes, we are jumping on this quote because it is of vital importance