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 Not possible to have privacy at the protocol level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 
 Monero wants to have a word with you. 
 Have fun with inflation bugs 
 Be honest. How much "money" do you still hold in dirty fiat shitcoins. And if it's more than 1% you are a huge hypocrite.

Monero is not competition for Bitcoin. It's competition for fiat shitcoins. And at that it's 1000x better.

Bitcoin being digital gold is great. But keeping not at least a small amount of ready to spend private cryptocurrency in your pocket is imo dumb.

Most people give a fuck about fiat inflation bugs and keep their shitcoins anyways.

That said I worry less about a Monero inflation bug than direct security consequences from using BTC in a non private way. 
 don’t bet again the ingenuity of humans. we can have privacy and provable correctness. we will figure it out. 
 What about ecash?

You put like 1% of your networth in a custodial solution that has the benefit of privacy.

With Monero you could do the same but non-custodially. 
 The maxi attitude is fucking up a lot of minds here. They seem to think we suggest going all in, when we say use 1% to hedge your bets and have private money ready to be spent. 
 https://www.moneroinflation.com

Ironically btw Bitcoin has had two inflation bugs before. #monero, zero. 
 You are looking at this wrong, because getutxoset you can find the inflation bugs. You can't find them on monero. 
 I have been thinking that both bitcoin and monero will have their place 
 Seems you have not even bothered reading the site I linked. 
 oh no! math is scary! 
 What’s wrong with Mimblewimble 
 unless the 'protocol' is one on top of bitcoin (lightning, hedgehog, etc), perhaps?