We've all just watched Liquid get burned because of confidential transactions. Nobody can tell if there is an inflation bug until it's too late. It's necessary for a globally trusted base money to be open and visible to be trustworthy. We need to add privacy in other ways (joins, L2, etc.)

The biggest and the most pathetic.

Liquid got burned because they were caching their range proofs and doing it wrong. Your position is understandable, but it's ultimately its just like a nocoiner refusing Bitcoin because they hear about a hack. The attack service is finite and if there's a design or implementation failute it will get fixed. Technology, and people's comfortability with technology, only moves in one direction.

Also huge is that there were zero legitimate businesses on Liquid. Nobody was ever doing anything substantial with it. It was just a quasi custodial way to sit on a hoard of 4k Bitcoin with no fucking purpose, and grift VC money convincing people that it was going to lead to viable business in the future. In contrast, Monero is a driver of a ton of commerce. It has more daily transactions per billion of market cap than any other top 20 coin. People are watching Monero. I am watching Monero and doing non-cached, live supply verifications as blocks come in because it is the cornerstone of my net worth. Liquid had nobody whose eyeballs mattered because it was a useless maxi scam, much like ColdCard. Everything this entire clique produces and promotes causes people to lose massive amounts of money because they are all useless, subhuman parasites and scammers. The best thing Bitcoiners could do to revitalize Bitcoin is start putting bullets in their heads in retaliation.