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Although I agree with you about sender privacy being relatively weaker than it's other tech - this is not completely true, Ven Amounts and receivers on Monero *are* encrypted and completely hidden. They're not merely obfuscated. The only thing obfuscated is spenders. So the most you could theoretically know is someone spent Monero. Not *how much* or to *whom* it was sent. Also, minor thing but, current decoys are at 15+1 real. Meaning after one hop from a transaction the chance of randomly guessing a spender is already less than a percent (~0.4%) I definitely am looking forward to full-chain membership proofs to address this, but it is not as dire as it is sometimes made to seem at this moment in time

Thank you for clarifying!

I think of this quote from Fluffy Pony https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1052095452651376640 Mimble wimble, while it scales better, is not private at all, and zcashs implementation of optional zksnarks created vulnerabilities for the whole chain ,shielded and unshielded. While people dont like the trusted setup procesa, it was well documented, and the implementation of Zksnarks by default on all transactions by pirate chain was ideal. Darkfi is inplementing halo2 trustless zk, with smart contracts and merge mining with monero randomX

I recommend checking out amir taaki's comments on various privacy coins, while he is fond of the monero community he is vocal about the need to improve its privacy