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Bitcoin isn't private, you can see how much BTC a sender or recipient is holding and what transactions they've made. I'd argue that without privacy mitigations such as a mixing service it's even less private than credit cards. They should have gone with Monero instead.
Does it need to be private?
I can't run my drug empire without privacy!