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Can someone provide a summary of what he says? Anything surprising?



He talked about the importance of anonymizing off-ramps and on-ramps for regular users by design and limiting history to one transaction for privacy protection.


Thanks.


In summary he said HODL.


He meant to say: just use Monero

Seriously, why do people keep trying to jump through hoops where it's very easy to make a mistake, rather than just using something with privacy built-in?

With Bitcoin, you have to trust that the mixer isn't a bad actor, that you don't get tainted coins in return, that you make enough hops or mix enough times, that no one discriminates against the sending address or recieving address or amount being sent, etc.


I don't do anything illegal with bitcoin, do I don't have to do all those steps anyway.

I do hope bitcoin gets better privacy features, ideally to the point that it's comparable to monero in that regard (not sure if actually possible).


I don't do anything illegal with Monero. So what?

I prefer cash for transaction privacy rather than credit cards. Doesn't mean I want to do illegal things.

(Bitcoin - essentially just as trackable as credit cards. Prepaid or ones tied to your identity.)

If I was a pregnant woman who didn't tell anyone, I don't want to start receiving pregnancy ads:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...




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