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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Privacy vs. anonymity
by
o_e_l_e_o
on 28/10/2021, 19:02:01 UTC
You support privacy to the bone, but you're also in favor of using a currency that is broadly accepted.
Such is the nature of compromise. If I wanted to be really private, I'd quit my job, take a hammer to all my electronic devices, cut ties with everyone I know, and go live in a hut in the woods and hunt my own food. As long as I can obtain a level of privacy I am comfortable with while still using bitcoin and while bitcoin continues to grow, then I'm happy.

What's the purpose of adopting globally this anarchic type of currency if you're going to have this behavior?
What's the point of governments allowing people to use it? So they can tax it and use it as another tool to spy on their citizens, in a way that cash transactions have never let them do before.

What makes you think that monero will be your salvation if the governments behave so autocratically towards bitcoin? They'll shut down mixers, P2P marketplaces, they may even censor the transactions that are mined and thus, the ones who confirms them... And they won't deal with monero? They'll make it practically impossible to use it.
I'm sure they would try, but monero is inherently more censorship resistant than bitcoin, and therefore more resistant to these kinds of actions. Good luck censoring transactions when you can't see the sending address, the receiving address, or the amount being sent.