My words. Agreed. 😎 And yes, "The Church of Satoshi Nakamoto of Latter Day Bitcoin Saints" has a lot of fanaticism, unfortunately often at the expense of true privacy and sovereignty. Love my BTC fam, but tbf the toxic reputation is well earned for many who are the extremists--- screaming "shitcoin" at everything not Bitcoin. In doing so, many lose focus of the original mission. Privacy, Sovereignty, Freedom from control. A new global CURRENCY.

Anonymity is different from privacy. Hiding your identity vs hiding what you do. Both are important. Aside from it being more expensive, slower, and tedious - only being pseudonymous is similar to being able to read text conversations from an anonymous phone number. You might not know who they are right this moment, but given enough time you start getting enough info to narrow it down (who they are transacting with, how much they are spending, consolidations, mistakes, correlating them with offchain data, etc, etc). And unless you coinjoin every single time you spend your counter parties will still be able to know your balances and who else you are transacting with for that wallet.

Lightning is not private at all the way most LN users use it (with custodians and LSPs) And even when used with your own node it is still less private and anonymous than Monero If you would rather swap to a custodial traceable chain rather than use Monero we are just different kinds of users I guess

Why are you constantly swapping in and out? You should buy Monero directly with fiat, or swap what you're planning to spend for X amount of time with some buffer (just say the month), and spend from that. Do you mean syncing is cumbersome? There have been several major speed improvements within last couple years, there are wallets that let you background sync so you're always caught up (like Cake and Anonero), and also light wallet servers you can run and connect to so that you don't have to worry about it syncing.

Have you looked into using Zeus for lightning? Their LSP uses wrapped invoices for receiving which hides your nodes pubkey from the sender. They make use of simple Taproot channels so there's no on chain footprint. Olympus, Zeus's LSP, handles the routing and will open channels on the fly making it easy for new users to onboard to Lightning. These are all default settings and requires only little knowledge on how Lightning operates. The only trust that's required is in their LSP staying online but even if they were to go offline funds would be returned back on chain. They also provide a ln address so you can receive if you don't have the wallet up and running. Not saying it's perfect, but in my opinion I think using Lightning with Zeus is much better and possibly just as private than swapping into another crypto to handle these on chain fees

An absolutely objective, open and above all realistic view of things. 💯🦁 Wonderfully described.

I Accidentally hit the the like button. Just to be clear. Our opinions doesn't match at all

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