not easy

for hedgehog to work you have to create a preimage & hash in every transaction, as well as two bitcoin signatures. A guy in this video shows how to create a preimage & hash with pen and paper. It looks like it would take about 8 hours of full time work and you'd probably make a mistake somewhere, so you'd likely need a team of three people to check your work. It is my understanding that creating a signature manually is about twice as difficult as creating a hash manually, and you need two of those per transaction so it's about four times as much work to make the signatures. So you're looking at five days of 8 hours of work for a team of four people -- per transaction.

But why do this with pen and paper? In this hypothetical scenario, did the USA also confiscate and ban all graphing calculators? It only takes a graphing calculator about a second to calculate a hash or a signature, so you'd simply have to program it for that -- and I'm sure such programs would be released as shareware. (There's one for gameboy already, so start with that and modify it for a ti-86, which should be easy because they are both 8bit processors with Assembly support. Or literally use a gameboy.)

how is this a sane answer? what makes you think you can flee the country and keep whatever gold, cash you have?

congress passed a bill: you cannot protest against Israel.(due to student protesting) Rights are taken at an accelerating rate, don't you think?

Bitcoin and Lightning aren't scalable either

At least Monero can actually upgrade to more efficient tech like ~80% reduction in transaction size that happened moving to bulletproofs

They're increasingly making it hard to renounce and leave the country. They want to collect your income, wherever the F*k you live.

BTC-public ledger, everyone can see your funds. If you buy coffee, they can trace it back and see you hold x amount of BTC XMR- doesn't show any funds. When you convert to XMR- you literally disappear. your funds are safely stored in the blockchain. Chain analysis will never be able to know who, what, amount of funds to track XMR.

in this extreme case, they're looking for BTC holders. They don't know whose holding XMR because the ledger isn't public

You can't be private with Bitcoin ever it's a transparent public blockchain

Maybe you meant you can be sort of pseudonymous

just a scammer shilling while pretending to write a real post, I downzapped the total amount

Learn about bitcoin, you fucking moron, sockpuppet sociopath scum!

you can buy monero, kyc free.. that's the point buy you can also buy non-kyc free BTC as well. The problem is the ledger

Bitcoin can never offer you on chain privacy as it is transparent. You're confusing privacy (hiding actions) with anonymity (hiding identity - and a weaker form at that: pseudonymity) which is obscuring your identity. All amounts and transactions are visible to anyone in the world.

Buying non-KYC wouldn't solve lack of on chain privacy part

Ideal to have both anonymity and privacy as missing one can be used to unravel the other over time

The “Move to Monero” isn’t great since if you bought the bitcoin with KYC and the government knows you bought $100,000 and then you moved to Monero then that’s really no diff than saying “boating accident.”

In other words, simply moving over to Monero does nothing for you, accept maybe privacy when purchasing. The government will treat you as if you have $100,000 of “illegal” money.

My guess is the government will say, convert your crypto to fiat or you’re going to jail. You’d have to sell your Monero.

In fact, one could argue Monero is worse in the above situation. With bitcoin you could prove that you sold some of your bitcoin elsewhere and no longer have access to $100,000. With Monero you either cough up $100,000 or go to jail - doesn’t matter if you spent/sold it.

Oeh, from Citizen Soldier? ;)