Somehow that's how it works with bitcoin but not cash, interesting. Despite the fact that cash is not actually that fungible (serial numbers, marked bills, digital bank ledgers) people use it fungibly quite often yet, given the same parameters bitcoin seems to fail your fungibility test.
Why is that?
It can't be tracking, ATMs read every serial number and which account withdrew them. The only difference I can see is that the ledger is public versus a private bank's SQL database.
I agree that Monero has great fungibility, I dispute its network effect capabilities but that's an entirely different point.
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Banks are required to make reasonable assumptions based on the transaction history they have. When you use Bitcoin, you are giving them extra transaction history. Unless you're using BOLT12 or whatever. And then you are, arguably, doing an overt act of money laundering, which is information in itself.
Yes, and again, Monero is also an overt act of money laundering at a protocol level. I will conceed the fungibility argument. I just can't understand the tainted coins take as a point for Monero. But hopefully we'll just use peer to peer shit and it won't matter anymore.