Max Hillebrand on Nostr: The more compelling argument is the cost of verification, onchain privacy techniques ...
The more compelling argument is the cost of verification, onchain privacy techniques lead to expensive worst case verification of blocks, see the recent zcash spam attack that basically stalled the entire network. I'm not sure, but I'd guess Monero FMP has similar attack vectors.
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