Regarding the article. I'm not an expert (nor a criminal). I would just say, the criminals probably could have mitigated some of this. Also I'd probably say that the authorities would have tracked them down 10000x faster if they'd been using bitcoins instead.

That's a great question!

I would say a few things.

Number one, sender privacy with monero does have issues since you're hiding within only 16 people and someone with enough data can begin to eliminate some of these decoys to find you. This is being solved with an update to monero that increases the number of decoys from 15 to EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION MONERO HAS EVER DONE. It's a huge deal.

Number two, yes lightning has pretty good privacy quarantees possibilites if you use it right. Unfortunately not enough of these things (bolt 12 invoices, proxy node in invoice creation for receivers for bolt 11, trampoline, blinded routes, MPP) are defaults making it harder for the user to KNOW they're getting the privacy they want unless they dig in and research and implement and use it in the right way. Not to mention SO MANY just resort to using a custodian for lightning due to it's absolute SHIT UX.

Number three, the use case for monero is several fold. It's relatively simple to use since most of the privacy is base layer privacy and privacy by default which is HUGE. Opt in privacy IS NOT privacy IMO. Not to mention it's accepted by a lot of vendors on the web since the monero sent to the receiver has excellent fungibilty. Something that onchain bitcoin just simply DOES NOT HAVE. All bitcoins DO NOT resemble all other bitcoins... which is really a shame. And not everyone accepts lightning. So for sure, if given the option by a vendor to pay in onchain bitcoin or monero, opt for bitcoin (or use a proxy like boltz.exchange/swap if you're against using monero for some reason). OH! and monero txs are cheap. That's something else going for it. Whereas large lightning txs start to cost you. And purchasing inbound liquidity will cost you. And FCs will cost you. Lightning costs tend to add up when you do it in a self-custodial way.

The good thing of SN, mute territories or individuals like you

We'll see! thanks for making the traipse into my neck of the woods friend

Thanks Ryu. I just had to mute one or two or three people and stacker.news became a lot more pleasant of a place.

That's a good position I've never heard before and it does make sense, I own both but that's to provide liquidity, I can create offers on robosats or retoswap and generate yield while the market participants need on-ramps and off-ramps to move from one asset to the other

I think it will be like on nostr, there's already a vocal monero group there even if it's a maxi echo chamber, that's because monero is the only crypto where bashing it doesn't work, the actions speak louder than words and no bitcoiner has managed to make the black markets go back to using bitcoin, so it ends into the acceptance of "save btc, use xmr" or something

As of now, it won't be, but that could change. Hopefully stackers won't be too big of dickheads. Other than Darth, but he can't help it. I just mute him as he doesn't contribute anything except memes. He's ceased to be relevant other than yelling at everyone like an old man on his from lawn.

Thanks a ton

:D I hope so.

Glad to have you. Just note that others may harass you. Make full use of the triple dots and mute option if need be. There are some shitheads on this platform that are anti-information.

Look out for my next post then!

Haveno

bisq robosats or haveno/retoswap, or atomic swaps using unstoppable swaps or basicswapdex

Not sure I understand, but unfortunately bitcoin devs don't push for (or really desire) privacy on the base layer. Hence it has to be pushed to 2nd layers. That's a key difference between the two.

No, monero has privacy and anonymity in layer 1