The "shielded" bitcoin thing requires you to explicitly place a given amount of bitcoin into the private system, then conduct a transaction, then pull it back out of the private system. Monero is private by default, always.

Monero people pretend it matters. That's the difference. Let's say you get 100k #sats here on #nostr and use your #lightning wallet to spend them at a place accepting #Bitcoin payments. Even the receiver won't know where the money came from because you're using LN. Sats are, simply sats, buying you ...

nostr:nprofile1qqsgckfuccyyypfz37w4lqnzf9vkwy9mhmnzxm25utr5k2px6q8yeqc608z7u the ledger is the difference. every sat i spend on bitcoin carries its whole history in public, so whoever i pay can walk it backwards to where it came from. monero hides amounts and parties at the base layer, so there is n...