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It's also not evidence that he is right.
I disagree. It's not conclusive evidence, maybe not even strong evidence, but it is evidence.
I accept the rebuke on my use of "extremely" with respect to the privacy level. The only point that I wanted to make is that it's not what the author described, where every node can see exactly what everyone is doing.
Online people often use the word private when they are insinuating secret. Secret payments are a VERY high bar. There are trade-offs. I think this is why Satoshi didn't design bitcoin to be more focused on privacy.
Privacy is simply having limited exposure of something. Control if you will.
A secret is known by no one. Maybe you know it.
I don't know how many of you had parents that told you this but it apparently didn't get said enough. When you share a secret, it isn't a secret anymore.
This whole subtlety is why it is almost impossible to have a rational discussion about privacy with Monero people. I share many of their values and concerns but there are no solutions. Only trade-offs. Everything is trade-offs. I find people that can't acknowledge trade-offs insufferable.
Great point.
It's also not evidence that he is right.
An analogy: I can't tell you when/where someone paid with a debit card. Does that make debit cards "extremely private" (your words)?