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by ewillbefull 3237 days ago
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.