Quote from: alani123 on April 30, 2024, 08:59:25 PM

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on April 30, 2024, 07:45:57 PM

Quote from: alani123 on April 30, 2024, 07:14:42 PM

But until then, does it make it right to bring up moralistic arguments and say that Wasabi should shut down because it could be done better?

I believe I have the right to pinpoint where I see suspicious activity. If a privacy-proclaimed company starts going in the opposite direction, people will stop using it. So, it's a matter of time until it goes out of business.

(Even though, at the draconian times we live in, every privacy-enhancing company will eventually shut down; ethical or not)

There's no wrong in pointing out what you believe is right. At least in my book. But hey, one has got to wonder, why is there an apparent lack of bitcoin privacy solutions?
The technology exists, someone has to keep running it though. Or better yet develop something better. If better solutions can exist elsewhere why aren't more people supporting them with funding and dev time?
Under these conditions I'm just appreciative of what we have, especially realizing what risks any btc privacy devs are taking.

For instance, Monero's community funds its own development. Bitcoiners don't care to do the same? And if there's something better for privacy, ok, great. But I think criticism also has to be directed at the community as a whole for not being more supportive other than just some privacy devs over other ones.

Monero is like OpenBSD: a niche UNIX distro that is secure by default (whether you like it or not).

Linux on the other hand needs optional stuff like SELinux and even in that case, I doubt it can reach OpenBSD's paranoid level of security.

If you got the analogy, then you get my point.

We have to accept Bitcoin for what it is (Satoshi had thought about implementing ring signatures, but maybe he didn't have enough time/expertise or maybe he lacked the willpower to make it private by default/piss off the governments and/or enforce a hard fork/piss off the community, we'll never know!).

BTC will ALWAYS require external software/entities (mixers) to become somewhat private and even in that case, you're at the mercy of governments, since those entities are usually centralized and thus prone to shut down.

Bitcoin for savings, Monero for spending seems like a good tradeoff if you ask me.

But if you're one of those Bitcoin maxis that believes Monero is a "shitcoin", then I don't know what to tell you.