LIVE w/ Rodolfo Novak
summary
Argues that privacy coins are a research niche not a necessary financial layer, claiming Monero is a billion-dollar coin but lacks enough scrutiny and that maintaining separate mining is a waste of resources. Points to specific Bitcoin paths: CoinJoin and Lightning for privacy, and Schnorr-plus-confidential transactions as deployable upgrades. Cites chain‑analysis firms with huge funding, real-world exchange blacklisting, and notes mixing raises transaction cost and complexity rather than solving all fungibility problems.
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