These days I’ve been trying to distance myself a bit from everything, and I realize that everyone forms camps and behaves like followers of political parties: they overlook their side’s mistakes and turn into hooligans. What’s sad is that this also happens within the anti-state and privacy space, and that’s just deceiving yourself, which is one of the worst things a man can do. Example: - Monero supporters always ignore the MAP Decoder attack, which statistically reduces the ring size to 4 members, although it’s true that FCMP++ will solve it. But if they were honest, they wouldn’t sell it to you as the ultimate privacy tool because it has been vulnerable to this since 2022. - CoinJoin supporters don’t tell you about or accept the vulnerabilities of their favorite coordinator. The main example of this was Samourai, and all of its followers keep repeating the same nonsense. - Bitcoin supporters don’t accept that achieving privacy/fungibility with Bitcoin is difficult, and Lightning supporters don’t accept Lightning’s privacy flaws. To fight the state/system we need something that is resistant to a state-level attack — that is Bitcoin, and only Bitcoin (hash power). But we also need privacy. At the moment we don’t have that, or at least not in its fullest form. For most cases Lightning is enough; for a drug trafficker maybe it isn’t sufficient. That said, I think it’s fine that people use other solutions like Monero — I’m not the one to deny people their choice. FCMP++ will be a huge leap forward if it works, but don’t lie to people either. Bitcoin has no alternative, though it can have complements such as Monero or other privacy strategies. But we should all start by being honest with ourselves.