Online people often use the word private when they are insinuating secret. Secret payments are a VERY high bar. There are trade-offs. I think this is why Satoshi didn't design bitcoin to be more focused on privacy.
Privacy is simply having limited exposure of something. Control if you will. A secret is known by no one. Maybe you know it.
I don't know how many of you had parents that told you this but it apparently didn't get said enough. When you share a secret, it isn't a secret anymore.
This whole subtlety is why it is almost impossible to have a rational discussion about privacy with Monero people. I share many of their values and concerns but there are no solutions. Only trade-offs. Everything is trade-offs. I find people that can't acknowledge trade-offs insufferable.
Online people often use the word private when they are insinuating secret. Secret payments are a VERY high bar. There are trade-offs. I think this is why Satoshi didn't design bitcoin to be more focused on privacy.
Privacy is simply having limited exposure of something. Control if you will.
A secret is known by no one. Maybe you know it.
I don't know how many of you had parents that told you this but it apparently didn't get said enough. When you share a secret, it isn't a secret anymore.
This whole subtlety is why it is almost impossible to have a rational discussion about privacy with Monero people. I share many of their values and concerns but there are no solutions. Only trade-offs. Everything is trade-offs. I find people that can't acknowledge trade-offs insufferable.