Others have talked about Monero's technology being implemented as a sidechain of the Bitcoin blockchain. Is that feasible?
Why use a Bitcoin sidechain when you can use Monero and enjoy privacy at protocol level?
The security offered at the current Monero hash rate not being enough relative to the value of the moneroj being held would be one issue. In other words, there's still always the possibility of someone coming along and deciding to fork Monero with a 51% attack, based on the amount of hashing power that Monero currently has. At least we're using a different hashing algorithm than Bitcoin, or people could've/would've gone at Monero directly.
Bitcoin devs and foundation are too political now to implement anything truly innovative. If they wanted to they can implement ring sigs and stealth addresses like cryptonote right onto the Bitcoin blockchain. No need for sidechain. Shadow has done this very thing on the bitcoin codebase.
Yes, my take is that even if they do, they still won't be able to set a mandatory mix-in level, making Monero superior in its anonymity.
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Again, excellent news!