The argument for private settlement was technically settled long before behaviour changed, which is the most instructive thing about it.
In the first period most users believed Bitcoin was anonymous. It never was. Every transaction writes amount, sending address and receiving address to a ledger that anybody can read, permanently. The industry built around reading that ledger grew up in exactly the same window.
Bitcoin was easier to obtain, more widely accepted and familiar. Monero required more effort, and effort loses to convenience until the cost of convenience becomes visible. It became visible gradually as chain analysis produced results years after the transactions it examined.
| Coin | What is recorded | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin | Amount, sender address, receiver address | Permanently and publicly |
| Litecoin | Amount, sender address, receiver address | Permanently and publicly |
| Monero | Sender, receiver and amount concealed by default | No public record to revisit |
Most choices around a market are reversible or fade. A weak password gets changed, a poor vendor gets avoided, a slow address gets swapped. A ledger entry cannot be edited or aged out, and it may become more useful to somebody examining it later as surrounding data accumulates. That asymmetry is the entire argument.
Offering a private option is expected. Nexus accepts Bitcoin, Litecoin and Monero, which leaves the choice with the buyer, and that choice is worth making deliberately rather than by accepting whichever option is preselected.
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