Are you literally retarded, or are you arguing in bad faith? I've already run down the whole scenario for you in the previous replies. equations hold = you can verify supply equations don't hold = you cannot in Monero it's always a risk that in the end someone finds a way to violate the assumptions and can inflate the supply. in Bitcoin it's simpler but it can happen and *has happened* (supply inflation). and you didn't answer my question - are you smarter than Satoshi, who was clearly troubled by the lack of privacy in Bitcoin and understood it wasn't enough? or smarter than Hal Finney who realized after about, erm, *one* transaction that Bitcoin needed more privacy too? and yet here you are, years afterwards, and you *still* cannot see it. but it's *others* who are "stupid" and "ignorant". you literally think you know better than Hal Finney, Satoshi, and all the O.G cypherpunks who knew that a digital cash without privacy would not work. the sheer arrogance!