Indeed. Satoshi himself proposed those changes for Bitcoin back when Monero had not been a thing yet. Later those changes all got implemented in Monero. Monero is based on the cryptonote white paper by Nicolas van Saberhagen, the only other anonymous founder of another coin that vanished immediate...

You are asking the right questions.

Wait. I'm seeing a lot of such ideas recently. But keep in mind, we should use the same tactics as governments, they crossed the line, so we can play dirty now. Let's boil them like frogs. Distract them with monero, create false image, keep them as long as possible and then drop the btc privacy bomb

Possible but not necessary and also a bad idea. It’s transparent at the base layer because that unintuitively gives an order of magnitude more privacy to the individual hiding from the state compared to the State hiding from the individual.

People saying it's a bad idea think they know better than Satoshi Nakamoto, I guess?

It would take hard forks to implement Monero's privacy into Bitcoin Monero will soon undergo a hard fork, probably in the next year, to add full chain membership proofs.

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No way, José...

Jason, while your question seems highly reasonable on a purely technical surface level, it is a philosophical and game-theoretic illusion when confronted with the institutional, social, and economic reality that Bitcoin has devolved into. The short answer is: No, Bitcoin cannot and will never achiev...