Will privacy coins survive?

[cryptoworld1]

While it is foreseen that privacy coins might not have a position in regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, the privacy coins will not be evaporated from the market cap, but rather will find audiences and venues where privacy is fundamental while regulators will become more sophisticated towards their approach to privacy ..

[Renampun]

of course, coin privacy will definitely survive, it's not that easy to shut down all existing coin privacy, just look at how monero - zcash and several other coin privacy still survive to this day, the rules regarding privacy are still protected, government intervention will not be as powerful that. what is no less important is that coin privacy developers must hide their identities, the government will definitely intervene with coin privacy developers if they are discovered.

[anshor1]

While it is foreseen that privacy coins might not have a position in regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, the privacy coins will not be evaporated from the market cap, but rather will find audiences and venues where privacy is fundamental while regulators will become more sophisticated towards their approach to privacy ..

Sure, I think privacy coins will survive if they are potential coin and very popular.
But if they don't have good project, I think will gone.
I see several investors prefer invest in privacy coins , because they feel is safer than other coins.

[MrSpasybo]

I seriously doubt that privacy coins can continue to exist and be mentioned in next cycle. The 2020 cycle saw a sharp decline in interest in privacy coins as governments banned them to curb money laundering. Additionally, the emergence of crypto mix services has provided similar capabilities to users, making it difficult for privacy coins to compete. Exchanges are gradually phasing out privacy coins to continue operating legally.

From investing perspective, privacy coins such as ZEC, XMR, DASh have not been able to create new ATHs in 2021. This reduces investor expectations. There will still be privacy coin users in the market, but they will not be able to pump the price so that privacy coins continue to be mentioned regularly in market.

[de_prof]

I seriously doubt that privacy coins can continue to exist and be mentioned in next cycle. The 2020 cycle saw a sharp decline in interest in privacy coins as governments banned them to curb money laundering.

Yeah, privacy coin will ban but I think people still use this coins, maybe by VPN.
We know  privacy coins can't be tracked, but still being favourite coins for transaction.
Monero is one of

[Hisbullah]

While it is foreseen that privacy coins might not have a position in regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, the privacy coins will not be evaporated from the market cap, but rather will find audiences and venues where privacy is fundamental while regulators will become more sophisticated towards their approach to privacy ..

Sure, I believe privacy coins will survive, although will be banned at many countries.
No worries about it.
I believe new privacy coins will be there.
No one can refuse the technology.

[Z-tight]

With how the government is getting serious with its anti-privacy campaign, it is going to be a tough future for privacy coins. Centralized exchanges continue delisting them and it is now harder to use them in any centralized service. A time is coming when you'll prolly only be able to use privacy coins in p2p exchanges or in any form of privacy transactions, it is sad, but that is the reality.

[hugeblack]

This will depend on the definition of privacy coins. Some blockchains have used privacy as a means to promote themselves, but over time and the fact that privacy is a bad thing may lead to you being a target for the authorities, I expect that 90% of the currencies that claim to be privacy currencies will expire or their value will be very low.
Monero will likely grow and will be able to be traded on some P2P DEXs.


So the future of privacy coins is clear, but the big question is what will happen to methods of enhancing privacy for non-privacy coins , for example Bitcoin mixers or privacy upgrades such as MIMBLEWIMBLE^[1], which were integrated with litecoin.

Will we see governments asking litecoin to remove MIMBLEWIMBLE?


[1] Explaining MimbleWimble: the privacy upgrade to Litecoin

[paid2]

Of course the will survive, as long as they stay decentralized.

So the future of privacy coins is clear, but the big question is what will happen to methods of enhancing privacy for non-privacy coins , for example Bitcoin mixers or privacy upgrades such as MIMBLEWIMBLE^[1], which were integrated with litecoin.

Will we see governments asking litecoin to remove MIMBLEWIMBLE?

Are you pessimist for the future of coinjoin if we talk about BTC? I am surprised of how much bitcoiners are not aware of its existence.
It's an interesting question, will governments go so far as to ask devs to roll back features that already exist? That wouldn't be surprising...

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

[Fivestar4everMVP]

So the future of privacy coins is clear, but the big question is what will happen to methods of enhancing privacy for non-privacy coins , for example Bitcoin mixers or privacy upgrades such as MIMBLEWIMBLE^[1], which were integrated with litecoin.

Will we see governments asking litecoin to remove MIMBLEWIMBLE?

Are you pessimist for the future of coinjoin if we talk about BTC? I am surprised of how much bitcoiners are not aware of its existence.
It's an interesting question, will governments go so far as to ask devs to roll back features that already exist? That wouldn't be surprising...

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

Well, to know this, I think we will first have to find out how long .onion domain have existed and what is the possiblity of the FBI or the government seizing such a domain or a site that is under such domain.

To this, I did a rather quick and undetailed research, and the answers I found aren't really definite, but then, one thing that stood out was that, if it was really possible to the government to seize such sites or domain, then they would have taken over the darkweb and all this organ trafficking sites that run on the darkweb.

This I think is a subject I will definitely want to give time to researching even more, for with all the current happenings in crypto and all the fights against privacy, I will love to know if privacy indeed have a chance of survival.

[Evgenklm]

Privacy coins may not take up space on regulated exchanges, but this does not mean they will disappear completely. They can find their audience and application where privacy plays a key role. As regulation evolves, regulators will develop more sophisticated methods to regulate privacy coins.

[paid2]

So the future of privacy coins is clear, but the big question is what will happen to methods of enhancing privacy for non-privacy coins , for example Bitcoin mixers or privacy upgrades such as MIMBLEWIMBLE^[1], which were integrated with litecoin.

Will we see governments asking litecoin to remove MIMBLEWIMBLE?

Are you pessimist for the future of coinjoin if we talk about BTC? I am surprised of how much bitcoiners are not aware of its existence.
It's an interesting question, will governments go so far as to ask devs to roll back features that already exist? That wouldn't be surprising...

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

Well, to know this, I think we will first have to find out how long .onion domain have existed and what is the possiblity of the FBI or the government seizing such a domain or a site that is under such domain.

Onion domains does exist for a very long time, Tor was released in 2002.

To seize this domain, they need to seize the server hosting it. Like they did with Chipmixer and their german DigitalOcean VPS for example.

[hugeblack]

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

If they wanted to, they would. They tracked down TornadoCash which is an open source, non-custodial, fully decentralized cryptocurrency tumbler that runs on Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks^[1]. They arrested the developer^[2], blacklisted the service, made it illegal for US citizens, added the addresses to the OFAC list. , GitHub removed the Tornado Cash repository^[3]

Mixers could (in theory) always survive on a .onion domain, no?

Not necessarily, the definition may include anything that makes it difficult to track your currencies, but coinJoin is not the problem as it can be blocked and Bitcoin will continue, but what will happen to privacy upgrades, such as MIMBLEWIMBLE with litecoin, since litecoin is not a privacy currency, but it has features that enhance privacy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Cash
[2] https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado-cash/
[3] https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/github_tornado_cookies/

[therozaq]

While it is foreseen that privacy coins might not have a position in regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, the privacy coins will not be evaporated from the market cap, but rather will find audiences and venues where privacy is fundamental while regulators will become more sophisticated towards their approach to privacy ..

There are many types of people who want to make transactions in the crypto world. 
There are those who prefer to use privacy coins, such as Monero. Because they think crypto is an anonymous world so why should we choose coins that are not private. 
This is justified, Because I do it  sometimes too.
So, We should do transactions that we comfort and confident..

[elbans89]

While it is foreseen that privacy coins might not have a position in regulated cryptocurrency exchanges, the privacy coins will not be evaporated from the market cap, but rather will find audiences and venues where privacy is fundamental while regulators will become more sophisticated towards their approach to privacy ..

Privacy coin is suitable for privacy transaction, So I think privacy coin will survive.
At the coming future, maybe investors prefer do transactions in privacy coin.
We don't know why..
Every people have own policy