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mister_monster 11 months ago
> prove me wrong by fighting this straw man I created > bitcoin has the same anonymity as cash Prove yourself right by showing me the publicly available transaction history of every dollar bill in existence. You can't track cash as it changes hands. You can track which bank ATM it left and which one it wound up in, that's about it. Cash can't be tracked from one hand to another using serial numbers.

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mister_monster 11 months ago
Oh I didn't think about this... A bank can't force you to "deposit at an ATM". A counterparty can force close your channel. So even lightning is jot as good as cash. Also cash has no payment processors. Lightning doesn't have to have them, but in practicality almost always does, in the form of large liquidity providers offering channels as a service.