Quote from: bisade on November 17, 2017, 03:54:32 PM

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on November 17, 2017, 03:13:10 PM

Everyone has heard how some people claim that Bitcoin doesn't scale because it's blocks are too small, but the real reason for that problem is that our Internet connection doesn't have enough bandwidth to allow average users to process thousands of transactions per second. So, what does that have to do with privacy coins? Well, their transactions tend to weight much more than those of traditional coins, because of all those complex signature algorithms that create that privacy - hence, privacy coins are even less scalable than Bitcoin. Of course you could increase their block size, but it would cause node centralization, which would quickly defeat any privacy. So, private coins right now can't become a widespread currency, they can only serve as store of value.

Thank you so much for your response. You're the only person that posited a response from which I learned something from.

The points you make are incredibly strong and serve as a counter argument to if privacy coins can ever be a serious threat.

Do you think Bitcoin core can implement anything to improve anonymity, whilst at the same time ensuring scalability is always possible?

The upgrade to the bitcoin network might be the solution for the scaling that the Lightning network can provide yet it still on alpha phase development at some point, this would benefit the micro payments of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that features peer to peer transactions systems.

Andreas Antonopoulos provide a great explanation about the bitcoin scalability
You can check this Video https://youtu.be/AecPrwqjbGw