the issue is every private tx on an optional privacy chain is treated as suspicious. if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear line of reasoning. agree must be protocol lvl.
Definitely, but my hope is that you can move your coins off exchanges and then do private transactions using that optional protocol.
You'd definitely need a hard fork. And everyone would have to agree on it. Which isn't the case. Some prefer the transparent blockchain, as it supposedly make gov accountable.
People prefer transparent blockchains for that, and because tracability makes crime fighting and business auditing easier. But all of this is at the expense of privacy, and freedom.
biz & crime sound like reasonable requests, but like you said at the expense of privacy/freedom. thanks for the points. couldnt see why any one would want transparent chains
hmm, using it to keep gov accountable sounds like a ring of power argument. aka some power we can wield to keep gov in check when in reality it will be turned against the general pop