silly question:xmr supply - the cryptography governing ringct is basically just a more advanced version of x - y = 0, comparable to button checks on inputs and outputs, so the cryptographic math is sound, and as long as the implementation is good (e.g. bitcoin had a bug last year or so where you could inflate coins in the output due to implementation flaw) - then all good? is that a reasonably

fair simplification?

And bitcoins advantage is that it is easier to discover an implementation bug due to the ease with which total utxo can be checked against emission?

Inge-: getmonero.org/2020/01/17/auditability.html

but basically yes

I've been over that a few times, just tried to distill down to its essence :)