Lots of talk about privacy and freedom, but then ZERO support for Monero.
There is ZERO privacy with bitcoin, you all know that.
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I recently learned about BIP-352 "silent payments" which kind of remind me of adding Monero-esque protection to Bitcoin transactions, but no mention of that either lol
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> A great summary of the three main reusable payment code schemes has been provided by Ruben Somsen, the author of Silent Payments in the gist for Reusable Taproot addresses.
https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/
This is not entirely true and I belive you know that already.
Bitcoin provides pseudo-anonymitiy and if you're on the receiving end, you can maintain privacy by never reusing your pubkeys.
But I get what you mean, probably. There is not much sender privacy by default.
There is a solution that assures privacy and freedom. It is used widely on the streets since years and it is NOT bitcoin.
At this moment the only ones still promoting BTC are 1) maxis because of speculation, 2) naive people that know nothing else and 3) government-compromissed entities. Very sus from protonmail.
Everyone else minimally informed has zero problems or worries with monero, transactions and holdings are simply private beyond doubt.
Yes, I get your point I think. Appreciating the privacy which Monero offers comes with tradeoffs some don't want to take while holding the Monero (me included). On the other hand in some use cases I used Monero myself. However from my understanding right now, I do not want to hold a significant value in Monero.
If you wouldn't hold today a significant value in Monero, you also wouldn't hold a significant value in bitcoin ten years ago.
I'm writing this as someone who actually mined bitcoin using only CPUs back in 2009. If you are in crypto for the sake of privacy and freedom, this is what we should be supporting rather than casino virtual coins.