only ETH can succeed in bringing meaningful privacy to the space, -too big to ban -only chain to already survive a direct government censorship attack (TornadoCash sanctions) -the community has the social solidarity (and modest validator hardware requirements resulting in geographical etc. diversity) to proactively resist regulatory pressure BTC, in particular, is highly divided about censorship resistance beyond the transparent money use case (see recent op-return debates) so will never add in-protocol privacy also, Ethereum has smart contracts, which means any privacy protocol on Ethereum can interop seamlessly with much less likelihood of leaking metadata (e.g., like with ZCash needing NEAR or Solana for DeFi because it doesn't have its own smart contracts)