Oddbean new post about login | logout You want to have both. But there is a real dilemma that you can not have both at the same time. Bitcoin and Monero are complimentary. Use it in your favour, anon!
"Perfect" auditability and "perfect" privacy are mutually incompatible. You have to make a decision on what you want and forgo the other. Or have something in between with the worse sides of both. L2s don't solve this either as it has to make the same decision. Take ecash for example. Aside from the custodial elephant in the room - very strong privacy, although there are half-baked incomplete methods of auditing, it is not really possible. Can't have your cake and eat it too