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 It's crazy how people are fooled, Bitcoin L2, L3, L4... is NOT Bitcoin. It's something different, another network where an other coin is moving, more explicitly, it's a wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC). The Lightning network is not the Bitcoin network, you need to keep that in mind. It's adding more complexity and risks, I'm ok to pay $0.01 for a Monero transaction where anonymity is by default, you don't need to do anything special, no tainted coin, all are equal, we call that fungibility, no need of L2 (something different) to reduce fees or adding anonymity to fill the gap on the original protocol. In Bitcoin you have choice of casino with tainted BTC or an other coin in a different network. If you want to use Bitcoin anyway, you have no privacy because it's pseudonymous not anonymous, if you pay someone, these one will be able to see your wallet, that means your balance and the history of transactions, no privacy here. If you don't want the risk of tainted BTC you are stuck on exchanges, at this point Bitcoin is useless, the original purpose is dead, making Bitcoin worthless... I'm a Bitcoiner, because Bitcoin is an idea first of all, the will of cypherpunks to create an anonymous electronic money, but these will is fulfilled on Monero not Bitcoin anymore, Bitcoin is becoming a shitcoin catch by authorities and big corporations where compliance is the rule and custodial the way to go where they own your key, not you. We need to understand it's not about the price, it's about freedom.