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Privacy by default would be better indeed, but Lightning offers already pretty good privacy for the average honest user (not to protect again states spies though)

Lightning still need to be improved for sure but eventually it will be good enough, but you are right a soft fork for convenants could maybe help to build better L2s.

The dynamic block size of Monero doesn’t solve everything, at the end it still relies on a fee market to avoid spam so in case of mass usage, L2 would be needed anyway. For the moment it’s still cheap because pretty unused (1 tx every 3 sec…) but don’t believe that Monero is perfect
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Saberhagen The Nameless 2y ago

Monero isn't perfect, but it is better than Bitcoin as a digital cash

Large sharp spikes in demand would increase fees on Monero, but because of dynamic blocks it would adjust to accommodate them over time and fees would fall again even if that demand persisted. The same cannot be said of Bitcoin. Fees will climb and stay high with more demand no matter how much time passes

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Louferlou 2y ago

What I can't understand concerning Monero is the system of penalty in order to increase blocksize.

As a miner you can't loose more than 0,6 XMR in penalties (block subsidy), so what is preventing a rich attacker to pay more than 0,6 XMR in fees / block, thus the miner would be incentivized to increase the block size over and over ?