I am not defending any form of state. It's a criminal business. Always was. People who do are criminals themselves.
But why are you still defending Bitcoin's inferior fungibility (a prerequisite for actual money) and its fundamentally flawed approach to privacy a human right that is eradicated at a never seen speed before.
You know that you are endangering people who need bulletproof privacy. Why risk it for a little financial gain?
Lightning, Cashu/Fedimint, whirlpool/join market solve all off this. And, the first two options are super easy to use.
All have different trade-offs. You guys always forget the normies.
They will use custodians, they will use surveillance tech. So you need to integrate the features also for YOUR protection in the base protocol.
Go back and read some old cypherpunk texts. PGP is there for decades, but normie's still send emails unencrypted. Companies will centralise LN into KYC hubs. Companies will be the fractional reserved custodians for your ecash.
I see value in all those things and still Monero is my default because it works as intended out of the box. It's hard to fuck up something in Monero even as a noob. While even pros in Bitcoin have a hard time understanding what they are doing.
