I was thinking about a small contradiction in privacy-focused crypto: if privacy is the goal, should everything really be private?

That assumption started to feel less obvious when I looked closer at Dusk. Its Moonlight model allows more transparent account-based activity, while Phoenix uses encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs where stronger transaction privacy is needed.

What caught my attention isn't really the technology itself. It's the choice.

In financial markets, transparency and privacy can both matter. A payment might need to be auditable in one context, while another transaction may reasonably require confidentiality. Giving users that flexibility seems more practical than pretending every interaction has the same privacy requirement.

But it creates a human problem too.

If someone simply sees “privacy blockchain,” will they understand which mode they're actually using before they confirm a transaction?

Maybe the harder challenge for Dusk isn't proving privacy can work, but making privacy expectations impossible to misunderstand.

Is user-controlled privacy better than privacy being automatic everywhere?

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