Quote from: bitcoin talk on Today at 08:53:32 AM

Quote from: Lucius on December 22, 2023, 03:18:46 PM

"privacy coins" are definitely different from Bitcoin, although I can't tell you how private their transactions actually are, because I honestly haven't studied how hard or easy it is to track those transactions. However, given that the authorities are quite hostile towards such cryptocurrencies and that most centralized crypto exchanges have removed them, it is quite clear that they want to discourage people from using them.

It wouldn't make sense for someone with malicious intentions to use mixers when they could go the privacy coin route? I guess they have a hard time accessing privacy coins since the bans so their business goes to the mixers? Agencies got one hole got plugged now perhaps they will try to plug the other (mixers)?

It actually makes sense because if you mix BTC, you do it with the assumption that you will get coins that are not related to you, that is, you want to break the link between your main address and the address from which you will make transactions. Maybe people would use privacy coins more if they could get to them more easily, but also if those same coins would be accepted by merchants in the same way as is the case with Bitcoin.

In other words, private coins are something that makes sense in transactions between private individuals, but with them you cannot pay for a hotel, buy a plane ticket, or many other things that you can pay with Bitcoin today.

@bitcoin talk, posting multiple posts in a row is against the rules of the forum, and you can reply to multiple users in one post by adding multiple post quotes, just scroll down and select the "Insert Quote" option.