Post AqdBx8aZyr2OQi3xmC by 4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d@mostr.pub
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 (DIR) Post #AqdBx5zddEIeNYlQv2 by 01643dfff1cda95c333bd758b16f024d5cb87568ade8ac8fdb7ba8b1549b59b2@mostr.pub
       2025-01-25T22:56:49.000Z
       
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       Hand on heart, if the price of Bitcoin stopped going up when denominated in fiat value and stopped beating inflation would you still be here?
       
 (DIR) Post #AqdBx79FKzZzxeGcXA by 4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d@mostr.pub
       2025-01-25T23:37:59.000Z
       
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       Yes. I'm in Bitcoin for the original cypherpunk ethos (personal freedom, privacy, and decentralization) outlined in the white paper—which is why I also use Monero. There is a large sell-out, highly-regulated price to pay for government adoption and "money go up." If Bitcoin is not used as a currency, and only as an historically well-performing, highly-volatile asset/commodity, it will still likely be a good investment, but it will have been neutered as a global cryptoCURRENCY, and have failed in its original vision.Snowden has been warning the Bitcoin devs for years to bake in privacy on the protocol level, and the clock is ticking. Cash can be used privately. Everything will be tracked when we go full digital on a public blockchain. When AI is put to the task of on-chain analysis, all the hoops Bitcoiners have been jumping through for years to try and use Bitcoin privately will have been of little use.There is a reason Bitcoin is being co-opted by the powers that be, while Monero is being delisted from the CEXs.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqdBx7xaJpqUTloozo by 8766a54ef9a170b3860bc66fd655abb24b5fda75d7d7ff362f44442fbdeb47b9@mostr.pub
       2025-01-27T08:00:05.000Z
       
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       Bitcoin Lightning is Bitcoin's "p2p cash" layer, and is very private.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqdBx8aZyr2OQi3xmC by 4eb88310d6b4ed95c6d66a395b3d3cf559b85faec8f7691dafd405a92e055d6d@mostr.pub
       2025-01-27T20:30:56.000Z
       
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       Given your infosec background, I'm sure what I am about to say is nothing new for you, so I am mostly speaking to "the room" here.Yes, Lightning offers better privacy than Bitcoin when set up properly, but it also has a more complex system, equating to a larger attack surface. LN's privacy features are not automatic; users must understand and manage their privacy settings actively, which can lead to unintentional exposure of transaction details.A fundamental privacy weakness persists in the asymmetric nature of Lightning transactions—the sender learns extensive details about the receiver's node, channels, and liquidity, while the receiver learns nothing about the sender. Plus, there's the persistent hassle of maintaining channel liquidity.Even with proper setup, Lightning faces critical privacy vulnerabilities against global adversaries who can monitor network traffic—while individual participants can't see payment details, entities capable of monitoring internet connections can track payment flows by observing message patterns between nodes, making its privacy guarantees fundamentally weak against sophisticated surveillance.Lightning falls well short of the anonymity provided by Monero with its stealth addresses, ring signatures, and RingCT—and soon, Full-chain Membership Proofs (FCMPs) will fix current vulnerabilities like the Exchange Attack Everywhere (EAE) attack. With FCMPs, every input will have a 100-million anonymity set, up from the current 16 Ring Signatures.Where privacy is a concern, I still recommend Monero over Lightning for most people, as Monero's privacy features are built-in on the base layer and work by default.