Craigslist now allows people to mark their posts as crypto-friendly.
Anyone who accepts Bitcoin runs into the problem where others can know their balance by looking up the address (and thus could be at risk for theft/mugging).
If people want to keep their balances private and not share their transaction history (or later transactions), they should use a coin that's private by default such as Monero.
Additionally, Monero has a dynamic blocksize, so as usage increases it won't experience the transaction backlog that Bitcoin faces.
You should create a different address for each post on Craigslist. It is pretty easy and prevents this problem. If you have a website and have an address displayed for donations, then you will get multiple donations to the same address. With any one-off just make a new address in your wallet. (I use bitcoin core wallet. Not sure how others work.)
And then later on transfer it to your main wallet and pay another fee, and trust that whomever your first address still isn't paying attention to it, or hope they didn't get their coins from a tainted source?
No, you are wrong, Monero has merged in MultiSig which is something unlike what it sounds, it basically means you can now make a wallet where several people hold a piece of a key and a majority agreement is required to spend.
> Additionally, Monero has a dynamic blocksize, so as usage increases it won't experience the transaction backlog that Bitcoin faces.
I am kind of confused with the block size thing. Sure, increasing the size means more transactions can be added into the problem. Bu, as far as I know bigger block size has it's own share of problems - block propagation is slower which can cause double spending and frequent orphans means the blockchain has to keep re-organising frequently too.
Darknet sites accept litecoin and monero now. At least some do. The BTC transaction fees are hitting a large percentage of their customers (people making sub $200 dollar transactions). That plus monero is better for their purposes anyway.
