LN doesn’t need to have ‘better privacy’ it just needs to have enough privacy.
Monero suffers from 3 issues:
1. Lack of scarcity
2. Smaller network effect
3. The people in it do not understand the importance of 1&2 for money.
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Monero is currently more scarce than BTC and will be so for the next 15 years.
Monero sees greater adoption on black, grey and white markets for real transactions than Bitcoin, which is mainly used for speculation.
All 3 things you listed have nothing to do with privacy. Common goalpost shift.
Monero is scarce. There is a limited amount at any given time that is under demand and no one can just poof it out of thin air.
FCMP upgrade later this year will enable L2s.
But yes it does have a smaller network effect.
That's a joke, right? Go ask 100 people randomly on the street in your local city 2 questions:
Have you heard of Bitcoin?
Have you heard of Monero?
A good 80% of people, maybe more will say they have heard of Bitcoin.
You will be hard pressed to find 1 person in 100 that has heard of Monero.
Ask the same if use. Like the Monero person uses it, great.
Likely 6% of the people will say they own or use Bitcoin.
Literally nobody knows or uses Monero outside of the 8 people who keep buying each others used panties over tor.
In 15 years, it will have trended almost exactly to zero against Bitcoin.
Congrats. Amazing money.