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Hanshan · 6d
no. It is RIDICULOUS that in the year of our Lord 2026, you are saying that people just have to do UTXO management and never ever correlate their stack with their KYC information just to start, LE ...
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If you think that can't be handled automatically, you don't really understand software. Privacy is external to Bitcoin itself. Which is spelled out in the white paper.

The tradeoff is that the money is trustworthy and auditable. Supply is auditable, verification is obvious and the code is more reliable because it is simple. The cost is that privacy handled externally.

Separating problem domains is good architecture. Privacy is a cross cutting concern. Network privacy and key management need to be solved at their own layer. Conflating that with the problem of money is trash architecture and forces bad compromises in both.

Monero, which you are obviously advocating for, got it wrong.

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🇮🇹Davide btc âš¡ · 4d
i agree, monero's approach is flawed, it compromised anonymity for a false sense of security.