"Our largest allies at the legal, institutional, and zeitgeist level are Coinbase, David Sacks, Marc Andreessen, and countless others.

In contrast, there are no champions at the Bitcoin protocol level. There are some proposals with some cool privacy improvements whose work I follow closely (Payjoin and Silent payments come to mind). But none of them are as drastic as we need, largely because the tools in Bitcoin are currently lacking for any significant, decentralized privacy upgrades.'

good summary of problems in legal world.

not much in the way of solutions.

it's fiery stuff but kind of hand wavy about tooling or protocol changes he'd like to see in Bitcoin.

anybody care to bite?

I'm guessing he'd like something like monero. But then you have the stealth inflation problem.

Am I missing anything?

I agree the situation is bad but I think those who want everything privacy just have to resist with coinjoins and lightning and malicious compliance and lobby for better laws.

until there are more consequences for petty violations (rare to never seen iiuc) there's not really any motivation for the masses of users to resist. there's your dilemma.

maybe things have to get worse to get better.

but we should certainly work on and get good at using privacy tooling now. even if we don't need it or use it other than playing around on testnet