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gsovereignty · 6d
Privacy is necessary some of the time. I'm completely against it being integrated at the base layer though, that's going to help the adversary more than it helps us (assuming it becomes the global sto...
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My point was you also seek privacy in the coinjoins and no-kyc ways you get Bitcoin. But I wouldn't say youre just a hiding rat by doing that. I would say it's smart of you to do when your adversary is powerful and isn't going to play fair anyway. The same way firearms give someone an asymmetric advantage against someone physically stronger.
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weev · 6d
there is no real privacy in coinjoins if your adversary has any significant amount of resources. They are trivial to correlate. Coinjoins are only useful if your adversary isn’t powerful, like say, you are hiding your transactions from your wife or something.
gsovereignty · 5d
Sure, but there are short term things on the way towards a bitcoin standard. My point really is that a bitcoin standard is better than a Monero standard and by then we won't need to hide from the State, the State will want to hide from us and we can't let them.