I know, I don't know much about it and I certainly won't get invested, but I am intrigued.

I said the same thing in the past. But there's a lot of resources to learn about Moneros privacy and how it works. There's not another currency like monero that's private like it. There's similar but not the same. Bad opesec led to users being exposed, not the actual use of the currency itself. Bitcoin L2s aren't all private and don't have those guarantees. The only one with the best is Lightning which is difficult to set up and centralizes over time and with the possibility of still being doxxed, Liquid network is just you trust them signers not to rug you, Cashu is just a currency backed by Bitcoin and you're hoping that the mint doesn't rug you, Spark can expose you and are very centralized. You can get to the point of anonymous on Bitcoin. But it requires a lot of work to get it done. I've been doing it for a while and its a lot of work to maintain, which isn't bad. But if we want to claim that Bitcoin is better than Monero we have to realistic and honest. #Monero #Bitcoin #BitcoinL2 #Cashu #Liquid

In most cases, The reasons Monero was deanonymized was due to swaps out of Monero. The main vulnerabilities for Monero are connecting to Malicious Nodes, and dust (sending small amounts of monero to combine with spend outputs, and using that known output to track movement but those both can be counteracted, there was just a monero update to mitigate malicious nodes but that doesn't matter if you run your own node, and dust can be counteracted with churning, & sending between 2 seperate wallets.) There is an old series called Breaking Monero by Justin Ehrenhofer who was a former, and notable Monero contributor before leaving to join a CoinTracking Company. Some of the information may be outdated especially regarding ring signatures, as the new update (coming soon) FCMP++ will basically make deanonymizing Monero impossible unless they had hardware level access to your devices which is also a vulnerability for bitcoin, and anything else. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsSYUeVwrHBnAUre2G_LYDsdo-tD0ov-y

Study the "Breaking Monero" series. With FCMP++ normies are covered quite well even more so if they use tor to connect to their Monero wallets. No one should assume that Monero is nearly enough if you are in a highly adversarial environment. You need to practice very well thought out OpSec then. Cameras in meat space or friends stock phones might still compromise you.