the bug was affecting only tx that would take more than 10 blocks to confirm & would just help showing that a tx happened between 2 wallets; that's a very far stretch to "not private" ! There is still a bounty btw from some us tax office i think for the first to trace tx there.

clearly flawed ? thing is there is not one code in the history of code that can say to be without flaw; not one.

Monero blockchain can be pruned & is dead easy to set up, you can run a node & even mine with any arm processor while bitcoin has become asic centric and you need to buy your processor from blackrock asic companies if you want to mine... it is bitcoin that ordinary people cannot afford to run a node & mine ! crazy inversion you made there my friend ! maybe you are a strawman indeed :D and i didn't even mention ordinals flooding the chain with useless (except for launderers though) rubbish.

Yea and how well did alcohol prohibition go? That shit just gets pushed underground and on black markets. That demand doesn't disappear just because people in suits wrote words on paper.

Dude, respectfully, you don't understand how Monero works. Any bug on the decoy selection algorithm for ring signatures has no effect on hidden amounts and addresses. And it is still probabilistic.

Essentially you are saying because Monero doesn't have perfect privacy, it is broken and we should just use a completely public chain like Bitcoin. The logic doesn't follow.

✅ hidden > ❔ visible, but probabilistic > ❌visible, deterministic

Monero default txns with a bug:

✅amounts

✅addresses

❔inputs/outputs

Bitcoin default txns WITHOUT a bug:

❌amounts

❌addresses

❌input/outputs

Bitcoin coinjoin txns WITHOUT a bug:

❔amounts

❔addresses

❔input/outputs

Even when Monero had that bug (now patched) Monero still offered massively more privacy and anonymity over Bitcoin