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I don't believe any transparent blockchain can accomplish what Bitcoin set out to do.

"Tracker coins": No inflation tax, but you pay by making your every financial detail public.

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With Monero and others you run the risk of secret debasement and other nasty stuff.
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"secret debasement"? You have to use math more complex than arithmetic to prove no new coins in non-coinbase txns... but you can still prove, there are no new coins in non-coinbase txn
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See the bitcoin bug of 2010...similar can happen with monero any minute, the difference is that there is a high chance that the pleb wouldn't notice before its too late.
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Everything comes with a trade off....Without transparent blockchain our framework of living will never be restructured for anything better.
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Crypto-statism is what happened unfortunately....
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Both is what happened, actually. On the crypto-anarchy side, we have Tor, GPG, Tails/Whonix/Qubes, Monero, Scuttlebutt (and I would argue Pine). On the crypto-statism side, we have NSA