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Yeah, Monero is absolutely your best bet for financial privacy in the digital world. There's nothing that compares.
Actually, cash compares, doesn't it? Not online of course, but otherwise
Yes and no cash for the physical world does indeed protect your privacy properly. However, you do run into the issue that you have to trust. Your government's currency, which at least for me, I do not. So Monero is also a way of getting out from the government currency that I believe is being debased and devalued.
I think Taler has a lot of promise. It protects the buyer but keeps a record of the money received. This helps prevent tax evasion.
helps prevent theft evasion.
No it doesn't