If privacy is optional, not only is exercising your right to privacy more difficult, but when you do exercise your privacy, it is weaker. You can be discriminated against, targeted, or cooerced to reveal your transactions via the transparency feature.
Fungibility is only achieved via default privacy. It is the reason NFTs (zordinals) exist on Zcash today but not on Monero. Provenance is impossible with default privacy, and NFTs require provenance. https://x.com/DontTraceMeBruh/status/1491698762028392449
If privacy is optional, not only is exercising your right to privacy more difficult, but when you do exercise your privacy, it is weaker. You can be discriminated against, targeted, or cooerced to reveal your transactions via the transparency feature.
Fungibility is only achieved via default privacy. It is the reason NFTs (zordinals) exist on Zcash today but not on Monero. Provenance is impossible with default privacy, and NFTs require provenance.
https://x.com/DontTraceMeBruh/status/1491698762028392449
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