These days, the community is arguing again about privacy coins and mixing—whether they count as "original sin" or not, and it's giving me a headache. Honestly, my expectations for on-chain privacy are pretty low: on the blockchain, it's just an open ledger, and privacy is more like "increasing tracking costs," not a cloak of invisibility; and the compliance line isn't something you can just feel safe about—platforms, deposits and withdrawals, even the receiver's risk control, can block you, and ordinary people can only watch helplessly.

I, as a perpetual old-timer, used to be stubborn and think, "I haven't done anything bad, so what's there to worry about?" But after being caught by risk control once, I became more honest: the less involved, the better; keep your addresses clean, and don't rush into shady pools just for convenience... Anyway, I just see myself as living in a glass house—covering a little is better than nothing, but don't expect to be completely unseen. How about you?