How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi’s Promise

Because the differences can be extremely complicated. Cryptocyrrencies are complex, and are not great for throwing out pithy one-liners in a forum context. I suspect there are literally hundreds of white papers from industry veterans and actual mathematics Ph.D.s’ on the subject. Here is an article that I found, that seems to cover the differences pretty well: Monero vs Lightning Network: Privacy Compared | MoneroSwapper Lightning is an improvement over standard Bitcoin, but the privacy aspects of a cryptocurrency really need to be baked into the protocol of the underlying cryptographic exchange. You will always make bigger sacrifices by building something private as a side-chain to something not private.