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There is very little overlap between respected cryptography researchers and bitcoin developers. The chain between theory to implementation to practice is difficult enough for state actors to handle reliably. The history of Enigma, Type B, JN-25, soviet one-time pads, and modern schemes like DES, 2-DES, FEAL, KASUMI, and BassOMatic, suggest not only that encryption isn't a guarantee, but conspiracies to keep a scheme popular long after it has been broken are common and widely successful.
I don't know a deanonymization attack on Monero. If that's all it took to make you feel Monero is secure, you're in for trouble. Encrypted or not, every transaction is immutably stored in the blockchain and replicated in millions of times to any bad actor who wants a copy. Even if there was no currently known deanonymization attack, that would not mean that a deanonymization attack is impossible for everyone and for all time.
Hey, you already took a bite at this apple! now you want to do it again? Why not just update your other post.
Ok, and what does that have to do with Monero? Monero IS NOT BITCOIN
Thank you for EXPLICTLY stating that. That is the only reason why half the people in this thread are responding you to. We don't care if you like Monero, we just care if you knew about an attack that we didn't know about.
Hey! We finally agree on something. This goes into your threat model and use. Most people wont care if their remittances can be cracked 5-10 years into the future. If someone had a very sensitive threat model, they would have to be far more careful.