[runeks]

So you’d rather lose your savings than have anyone reveal your holdings? This seems to me like a rather extreme point of view.

I mean, you have to keep your savings somewhere, right? You need savings for when you retire. And no alternative offers 100% anonymity, so in that case you would risk your anonymity for the security of your savings, right?

I’m not saying cryptocurrency will comprise even a minor part of your retirement savings any time soon, but perhaps in 10/20/30 years?

[ewillbefull]

It depends entirely on what you're doing. There are people who "save" cryptocurrency and depend on its long-term value, but there are also people who are more worried about going to prison (or being murdered/extorted) than whether their coins will be worth anything in a few years.

The problem is that non-private cryptocurrencies are permanent records of financial activity. I would rather risk soundness now than privacy forever, especially when there are post-quantum paths forward and our current assumptions are reasonable.