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 Do you admit it only had utility in this aspect and nothing else so therefore not money.  
 Monero has all the properties of money.
Bitcoin does not.

cope. https://image.nostr.build/986286384c78b0a0c0a91861139b7c72e24a8a8b414e1dad9e15d127f9e1125c.jpg 
 Can you elaborate on why it states btc is ❌ fungible? 
 Tainted coins can be rejected. 
 Tainted? Rejected by who? 
 anyone with a block explorer and enough knowledge to follow the money.

they are going to map the entire utxo set using existing KYC/AML info and assign confidence scores to all of it

large institutions will pay CA to help them avoid tainted, risky utxos. 
 Large institutions ARE paying CA to avoid risky utxos.
its a huge business. 
 Seems arbitrary and at an individual level the argument falls apart. Because a person or institution decides to not accept a specific utxo doesnt make that thing init of itself nonfungible. 
Individuals can do what they please. 
 the point is that it is possible to differentiate between utxos of the same 'value'

IOW, 'value' is not the only characteristic of a new utxo.
Because the ledger is transparent, 'history' is also communicated.

And because their 'history' is not the same, utxos of the same 'value' are nonfungible.
by definition.

yes and *then* people can make whatever decisions they want.

but we have decided that
"fungible"
means that units of equal size cannot be differentiated from each other.

and bitcoin is not that.
 
 Rare sats for example. 
 fucking rare sats 🙄 
 Rare sats are funny 😂 an example but a silly example. 

I see the perspective of the history, metadata about this utxo chain but this is at the human level. Imposed onto it. At the network level a utxo is a utxo. A sat is a sat, no matter how long or short its chained history is. 

Sure obfuscation of this history seems to provide ppl ”value” but not on the network. 
 sure
whatever.
nodes don't care.

its still not fungible in real life.
de facto nonfungible.

so let's all go ahead
get over the fact
and move on

bitcoin does NOT have all the properties of money
it's probably never going to have strong privacy
and its a big fucking problem 
 Good convo, i appreciate the push back and knowledge sharing. 
STACK SATS 🤙 
 lol cya 
 the hill I will die on

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 Every utxo is literally distinct... 
 utxos with different histories are not fungible by definition.
they are NOT interchangeable units, they are distinguishable. 
 Unique histories are the opposite of fungible (uniformity, indistinguishable among other units)