Privacy for "p2p electronic cash" is not a shiny feature. It's a core requirement of cash.
It also directly affects it's fungibility and censorship resistance if Bitcoin.
Adam Back talking about the fungibility problem of Bitcoin years ago: https://xcancel.com/DontTraceMeBruh/status/1880019339027575222#m
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it’s hair length, eye color, height, weight. an accidental attribute that admits of more or less.
those things don’t define what it means to be human.
the same way privacy doesn’t define money. is privacy a a feature, sure, but it’s not “a core requirement”
whatever is in one’s ass is private, who cares.
if we care about privacy, which i would agree is not a bad thing in itself, then we wouldn’t pump privacy into a base layer shit coin.
if we cared about privacy, we wouldn’t pump developer layer 2s
u build accidents on essence, not swap’em