I also wanted to mention I appreciate our respectful and productive conversation! Not many can do such without cursing or dismissing viable solutions and goals
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Privacy is a huge concern of mine so I have a lot of respect for Monero and the community.
I dabbled with Monero, ran a node, read some of the code a few years back.
But ultimately my conclusion was this isn't going to work and will likely die a slow death as fewer and fewer people accept it as payment.
I could easily be wrong, but that is my current assessment of it, so I'm sticking to bitcoin and learning the best ways to use it privately.
Wishing you guys the best though, I'm not a hater.
What Monero does (I like it too) could become integrated into bitcoin through some layer. I do not like that Monero can’t easily be audited for supply. I think they sacrifice security by using random X. I really like XMR, but it at best goes well with Bitcoin, does not substitute. And so, I think Bitcoin will absorb its qualities in some way.