One of the most exciting features of Bitcoin is that it's permissionless and anyone is free to contribute and build on top of it. This is what has enabled projects like Lightning to emerge and evolve.
> anyone is free to contribute and build on top of it
These are great features, certainly welcome. However, I believe my point still stands, bitcoin is not philosophically 'private' indeed the entire basis for it working is that it is a public ledger (yes more private crypto does exist, like monero, but the conversation is about bitcoin). The public ledger is the feature, not a bug.
One day it might be all those things, one day I might be pope. But you can no more say it is that than you can say I am his holiness.
