Reject privacy maximalism; embrace privacy pragmatism.

1/ The Onchain Privacy Trilemma 🧵👇

Privacy is the last hurdle to mass-adoption of onchain finance. Can we simply add self-sovereign privacy to today's onchain finance and expect everything to work better?

The answer is no. We must make hard decisions on trade-offs between the following three desirable properties:

1. Maximally useful: no transaction limits, supports private payments and anonymous DeFi

2. Self-sovereign privacy: contents of private transactions cannot be revealed without consent from involved individuals

3. Threat resistant: adversaries cannot use it to hack & launder funds

Choose any 2, but never 3