Maybe not more private, but in certain situations lightning can be as private as Monero. nostr:nprofile1qqszrqlfgavys8g0zf8mmy79dn92ghn723wwawx49py0nqjn7jtmjagppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5q3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmny478z2v has done a ton of research and testing on the topic. If you’re interested, check his npub and search by key word “Monero”. Certainly Monero’s opt out privacy is better UX than Lightning’s opt in privacy. One doesn’t require special skills and effort to be private, the other does. My beef with Monero is not technical in nature. It’s not the first shitcoin to be technologically superior to Bitcoin in some aspects, inferior in others. To be fair, of all the shitcoins out there I think Monero is the least shitty and the most honest. And your culture right now is more pure than the one in Bitcoin (you have your priorities straight). I also think you won’t get much bigger compared to Bitcoin, so you might be able to retain this cool features.
