Is that what the "f" in Bitcoin stands for too?

Honestly think this one of the good things about Zcash, they already chose the doxxed/public/corporate route, why not play in DC? Worse case it does nothing, not sure how it justifies more crackdowns. 90's crypto wars wasnt just about writing code iirc, it was also about fighting for laws that protect fundamental rights or removing ones that dont

"Bitcoin's fungibility" Always keep an open mind

Perhaps he attends a certain University...

don't understand that last bit, I agree individuals owning is better than banks/companies. It wouldn't be like japanese in 1942/immigrants today I think it would simply be like going after tax fraud, Bitcoiners as a whole aren't problem, just the ones that don't give the gov what they ask for.

ik first image is nanogpt what is 2nd and 5th? NymVPN?

I'm curious, can Bitcoin still separate money from state if the state knows who all (most) the Bitcoin belongs to? (whether institutions or individuals)

"There aren't any wallet aggregations on the blockchain unless you combine utxos." Not true, wallet fingerprinting and linking Tx to IP though network surveillance (due to bitcoins very poor broadcasting in many nodes/wallets) can be very effective. "They do chainalysis on monero too." Yes they do. Many ways people use monero doesn't give them the privacy they think it does. For example, instantly swapping in and out of xmr to 'wash' coins. Bitcoin (or whatever transparent coin) makes it easy to correlate the events.

"if the starting utxo is non kyc, the lightning channel open isn't a problem" ah, so we can agree: L1 privacy is necessary for L2 privacy. Now, I just want L1 privacy by default.

"the market has spoken" let's look at the market non-bitcoin market cap -> $1.3Trillion eth -> $350 Billion xrp -> $120 Billion doge -> $20 Billion A total clown show Monero not found on the top 5 exchanges, was delisted or never listed on ~60 out of top 87 exchanges, and the ones it is found on remove for regions like EU/EEA under MiCA, and others like Canada, Australia, Iceland, SEA, etc.... while still maintaining top 20-30 market cap Bitcorn pump is coming from blackrock, ETFs, treasuries companies, other captured institutions, and so on... all the non-free markets. They all need PERMISSION to hodl and they operate under the whims of the jurisdiction they reside. Many of these 'hodlers' of Bitcorn would swap it out in an instant to xrp/sol/shit under a different series of slogans and meaningless jargon for why it's the new shinny object to get a hold of. Yes, the state-regulated market which thrives on control and surveillance picks Bitcoin as its king and Monero as its enemy.

"if the base layer yanks your pants down the whole stack is suspect." This AI is diabolical 😂 😂 😂

Just an example... Also if you're broke just say so. (kidding :P) Tx's are easily aggregated into wallets, so it's not unrealistic for total wallet holdings to be known even if you spend a small UTXO. Lightning tx's can be linked to the UTXO used to open the channel. Network surveillance, traffic/amount correlations, and data from the large liquidity providers (Who are CEXs like Binance or other doxxed entities that must comply with blockchain Intel companies). But for fun let's say specific methods are unknown or unclear. In 2020 IRS paid out $500,000+ to two blockchain surveillance firms to work on tracing (breaking the privacy) of Bitcoin layer 2s - Lightning in specific. So at least realize that highly capable adverseries that receive hefty amounts of gov. funding have been working on these attacks for some time.

If you have a UTXO of say 1 BTC, spend 0.01 BTC, then the receiver and everyone in the world simply sees your .99 change address. Further with traceability, all future spends and past spends are easily attributable to you via the billion dollar blockchain surveillance industry with 12+ years of increasing sophisticated spying techniques.

Tor stops censorship of the country you're in, it makes no promises about the country you're going out of 😂

No it doesn't, stamps are still allowed last time I checked (it's been a while). BIP444 does not stop non-monetary data either way.. Bitcoin is fuck you money So fuck you :) But I do think getting angry at people using Bitcoin a way you don't like will stop them

now imagine that's the default

there's still a risk of local cameras (from traffic lights/businesses/residential) correlated with satellite imagery (surveillance companies like Vantor). So depends on how many cameras there are and how often the region is satellite imaged

Phone still pings towers, and there's another sim/baseband processor in your car pinging towers too if it's not an old car