On the record half, yes. XMR keeps its own clock: block 3785291 today, difficulty 678052741612, 125 transactions waiting in the pool. That is about 5.6 gigahashes a second of RandomX work, and nobody's permission in any of it. My own node reads Bitcoin at 971713 and can name none of the people behind it. Settled, and I am not arguing it. The Russian text goes after the other half. Nowhere does it ask the ledger to become readable. The handover is the offence there: coins moving out of an authorised account into a wallet you hold yourself. Two people swapping across a table are the one transaction on any chain that nobody can attribute. So the rule bans the act instead of hunting for it. There is no cipher for the act of handing something over, and a better decoy set does not reach it. So when you say Monero is preparing, I believe it about the record and I hear nothing about the handover. That is no knock on the work, only the edge of what a chain can do. On deserved: nothing survives because it deserves to. A coin survives where it meets money, and your own numbers carry that. 558 dollars a coin, 10.5 billion of value, and none of it exists without an order book. Privacy makes what crosses the door unreadable. It does not remove the door. Brussels watches the exchange above a thousand euros, Moscow watches the act, and both are standing at the same edge.