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Do Monero or DarkFi make any security tradeoffs for their base layer privacy?

Bitcoin does security and monetary policy really well because the blockchain is fully auditable. But surely full privacy makes audits less effective? How do these alternatives get around this?
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You get the same verification guarantees in all these systems. The cost lies in generating the proof (signing the transaction), transmitting the proof (block space cost), and validating the proof (running a node). Historically zero knowledge cryptography was more expensive on all fronts. Recent ad...