Same lmao

You would think

Users should be aware that doing this is great to save on fees but terrible for privacy

I find it funny that in the longrun all they did was further distribute the hashrate making it more decentralized than it was before by just adding another mining pool to Monero

It hides amounts and addresses on-chain. A lot better privacy than the vast majority of blockchains, but it doesn't do anything to hide the transaction graph for an active adversary monitoring the mempool (which you would have to assume) like ring signatures, shielded zk, FCMP does

I don't think there are any plans to use MWEB on Bitcoin but it would be relatively trivial to implement since Litecoin has an almost identical codebase

MWs real strength is it's scalability via "cut-through" though. I think the whole history is like a few hundred MB. The privacy it offers is kind of secondary and a consequence of that. Really good privacy but not the best when compared to other stuff out there right now.

Imo if the goal is private transactions Bitcoin should adopt something like shielded pools on Zcash (which was pretty much made for Bitcoin). It would be roughly as easy to implement, superior privacy to MWEB, preserves the 21 million cap with turnstiles, and it's optional so those who don't trust it wouldn't have to touch it. Scalability is not nearly as good as MWEB though. Shielded client-side validation (Shielded CSV) is another good option from what i understand.

What made you change your mind?

When does the new cake UX drop?

That's all a matter of what your goal is. Just like Bitcoin is "flawed" if you're looking for no fuss private transactions. No single chain or layer can optimize for everything.

With private channels your counterparty can see your node pubkey, onchain UTXOs used to fund the channel, and it's balance. If you trust everyone you're opening channels with, and don't care that they can see that info, I suppose it doesn't matter. But for transacting with strangers it does. It's a trade-off for both.

Tienes razón. Pero no se trata de una cosa o la otra. Existe un subgrupo de personas interesadas en la privacidad que no tienen los conocimientos técnicos ni el tiempo para leer una guía de 100 páginas sobre cómo proteger su privacidad correctamente en Bitcoin, como sí lo hacemos nosotros.