bitcoin needs privacy
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#bitcoin doesnt need a soft fork. Bitcoin has quite a lot of privacy built in. Much more than its fiat competitors. Privacy solutions can be explored without a soft fork. For example, with merge mining. Or privacy can be done at the nostr layer. But there is not much appetite for this, so far.
people usually don't value privacy until things get really really ugly in the real world. and by then its often too late because the panopticon has been built.
notice that essentially the only 'crypto' tools the state went after were privacy preserving ones (samurai and tornado cash) and monero has been banned from most exchanges.
they can see everything and fighting against that is a sin to the state.
Theres no privacy on a transparent ledger.
Bitcoin is in this position because Core has squatted on it for years.
the solution isnt to just do nothing.
Which is why Monero is being used.