Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 04:06:43 AM

If a government wanted to discriminate it wouldn't make any difference if your coins were mixed or not. They could even do it for virgin coins (freshly created coins in a coinbase transaction, ie. the block reward). (..)

I see your point, but it makes the problem even worse. Bitcoins coming from anonymous sources like obfuscated Bitcoins from a Coin Join are seen as bad coins already. If virgin coins are banned too, it gets even worse and Bitcoin is definitely not fungible anymore! Are exchanges not discriminating even today by banning anonymous coins from entering the markets? Anyone visiting Binance, Bittrex, Kraken or any other Centralized Exchange today and depositing a Coin Join output will have their assets seized immediately with no rights of ownership for them unless they provide personal documents. If you deposited a transaction from a regular person's wallet however, you would have no issues depositing and withdrawing. The discrimination is already here. While for you one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin, for centralized institutions and exchanges it does not anymore.

Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 04:06:43 AM

(..) Same thing here. The centralized place could be under pressure by government to make anon coins (such as Monero) illegal and anybody who has ever deposited these coins in their account in the past would be under discrimination.

The solution to problems you are describing is not changing bitcoin protocol that is working fine and is providing enough privacy. The solution is avoiding centralization and petitioning your government about their unreasonable laws.

Is the Bitcoin protocol providing enough privacy? Most transactions successfully get debunked through blockchain analysis. Besides, the average user will either not have enough knowledge about Bitcoin privacy or enough time or care to keep their privacy at a constant level. Staying private with Bitcoin requires a lot of attention and timespan many users can not afford. As long as the majority of users will not care anyway, I will never have my promised privacy.

The discussed issue goes even deeper. The less privacy we will have, the more discrimination there will be and in consequence the closer towards black markets anonymous coins have to move. If there is no room for anonymous coins on normal exchanges anymore, black markets become the norm.

Moreover, I see this Monero argument everywhere around yet I do not understand it. Monero has probably been deemed illegal on less markets and in less countries than Bitcoin. Do you think having more privacy is that bad or why does almost everyone seem to hate or be scared of the idea of having privacy nowadays?

Also, I honestly believe the best petition against unreasonable governmental laws is Monero. And by Monero, I mean private transactions they cannot debunk.

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