basically I agree with homeboy here. there is a trivial, but non-zero chance that I could craft a transaction that creates Bitcoin out of thin air. but the moment I send it, someone picks up on the fact that there are more Bitcoin than there are supposed to be. therefore it isn't " hidden inflation ". there is a trivial, but non-zero chance that I could craft a transaction that creates Monero out of thin air. but because of the hidden amounts the transaction does NOT get immediately detected and we have to wait for some autist who's looking for non-standard transactions to notice it and wonder what it's doing. but to my way of thinking, are you going to spend your life worrying about really small probabilities? there's also a trivial but non-zero chance that I could come up with an exploit that allows me to spend satoshi's coins... are you going to worry about that? boomers don't trust Bitcoin because they're afraid somebody could " hack " their bitcoin. they don't understand about public pair cryptography and the DLP. Maxis don't trust Monero because they're afraid somebody could " hack " the range proofs that guarantee supply. same picture. everybody has to make their own decisions about where they place trust when they can't personally verify things.