Quote from: Yamane_Keto on November 21, 2023, 12:17:53 PM

The comparison between Bitcoin and Monero in terms of privacy is unfair because the only use of Monero is due to high privacy. I can understand the comparison between Bitcoin and Monero in general, but in terms of privacy, Monero is better.
Bitcoin was not built to enhance privacy in the same way as Monero, but rather to enhance transparency and make it difficult to track and stop who sent the transaction despite the possibility of knowing who sent it.

Bitcoin started with people who were anarchists, anti-establishment. This culture around hodl and number go up is more about getting rich than fixing the world. A lot of people in the Monero community argue that Satoshi's original vision was to make it private on chain. I think transparency is good for government, but individuals should have privacy. And so I think they're correct when they say you can't have freedom unless you have privacy. The state would not survive if everyone had privacy. Similarly, the state would not survive if it was transparent & everyone knew the truth, the illusion would crumble fast. There's more people in Monero who have swallowed the red pill & can see the matrix.