It’s not about whether it can be done correctly. Of course there are privacy tools available, but privacy is very often a product of liquidity, in other words is specifically about hiding in the crowd.

Meaning that if it’s too hard for the average person to use, or unfamiliar enough that they simply don’t, then it fails to serve its function well.

What we need is privacy tools that are adopted because they lower on chain footprint and fees, so privacy is adopted *in spite* of users not caring, rather than because of.

Lightning is the closest thing to a privacy boost that most users don’t think about, but it still suffers from the “banned UTXO” problem if miners can be coerced to filter transactions & succeed in keeping them out of blocks.

Why Lightning is powerful though can be seen in any custodial service that doesn’t take “coinjoined” deposits. If you coinjoin to a Lightning channel, then pay over LN, they have no idea where it came from.

It’s getting better, but I’d like to see clearer on-chain privacy tools with wider adoption & as the default simply because it’s better. I realize that’s not easy, which is why I think it should be an extremely high value focus. Fungibility matters, a lot.