Accidentally left out the most important fact: Bitcoin is not and can't be private with changing the protocol. Everything is transparent and visible to the entire world no matter how many coinjoin identity shufflings you do. All connections and amounts are known.

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Yeah, that is a feature not a bug. You can track institutions, banks and other stuff to know what they are doing. Mainly is difficult to lie you about their funds. But of you want privacy you can get it, as I said is not by default but there are options. I'm not against Monero but it needs to find a better way to get traction.