You have no idea what you are talking about.  You are just regurgitating whatever dumb anti-privacy propaganda FUD you saw from people who don’t actually know how the world works.  By analogy, you are also probably surprised, or unaware, that Twitter, Facebook, and The New York Times all have official Tor onion sites—whaaaa, I thought that .onion was only for teh scary “darkweb”!  Government will never allow onion sites to be mainstream!

Go argue with Tyler Winklevoss.  I hear that he has some BTC, too.

Twitter official onion: https://twitter3e4tixl4xyajtrzo62zg5vztmjuricljdp2c5kshju4avyoid.onion/tyler/status/1345138664377094144
Clearnet: Yuck!, or use Nitter if you’re smart.


Gemini supports ZEC shielding withdrawals.  You can go to Gemini right now, buy unlimited ZEC, and withdraw it straight into a wallet that is 100% invisible to the world.  The Winklevi like it that way, and they have the green light from New York State regulators.

I am guessing that NYDFS Bitlicensed, heavily regulated Gemini would probably support a strongly private BTC!

Of course, it is not very useful for hiding money from the government:  Gemini has your KYC dox.  I have been writing a much longer reply to Jay about that.  I will also reply soon-ish to Mr.right85.

[Edited to add:  As I also recently mentioned, Ethereum now has strong privacy with Tornado.Cash, Aztec Protocol, et al.  Vitalik personally supports this.  And I didn’t mention, Solana is also getting strong privacy—with full support from its core developers.  Why do you treat Bitcoin as the weakest coin, the only one that needs to fear having strong privacy?]
[Edited June 25, 2022, 11:49:46 PM to add that note, then later to add link.]

This is just a quickie.  My subsequent reply will involve this quote—Phil, do you suppose that Satoshi was his own worst enemy?


Satoshi wanted to make Bitcoin untraceable.  He just didn’t know how.  Bitcoin would soon inspire cryptographic research advances to solve that problem.