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> Monero, the most prominent fork of Bytecoin, the result of years of work of a very dedicated community, probably the most anonymous currency in circulation to

> Monero, the most prominent fork of Bytecoin, the result of years of work of a very dedicated community, probably the most anonymous currency in circulation today - in the form of an ERC20-Token? What about Zcash? I'm pretty sure that's a serious contender for the title of "most anonymous".

SRTP 9y ago
Zcash transactions are anonymous only when the user selects this as an option. The ability to send an anonymous Zcash transaction requires running a node. With Monero, on the other hand, transactions are anonymous by default.
dannyw 9y ago
Zcash had a big bug that caused 400k tokens to be printed by an attacker due to a typo of = instead of ==; so I’m not sure how serious it is if a contender.
- saddlerustle 9y ago
  No, that was Zcoin. Different project run by fools.
- mrb 9y ago
  This was Zcoin, not Zcash. Multiple critical bugs have been found in Monero, eg. https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-i...
- tehlike 9y ago
  As of today, zcash still doesnt have a way to audit money supply.
tehlike 9y ago
Zcash doesnt have a way to validate monet supply, and it is not private by default, which is a big no. It also doesn't provide network level privacy (monero doesnt either, but kovri is in the works)
- elmar 9y ago
  > Zcash doesn't have a way to validate money supply A little know secret is that, Monero also doesn't have a way to validate money supply.
thisisit 9y ago
Zcash has two types of accounts - t-accounts which are transparent accounts and z-accounts which are hidden. Most exchanges don't allow z-accounts so, all the money has to be sent to a t-account. This creates a linkability issues which has been discussed in this blog post: http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactions/ http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactio...

SRTP 9y ago

Zcash transactions are anonymous only when the user selects this as an option. The ability to send an anonymous Zcash transaction requires running a node. With Monero, on the other hand, transactions are anonymous by default.

dannyw 9y ago

Zcash had a big bug that caused 400k tokens to be printed by an attacker due to a typo of = instead of ==; so I’m not sure how serious it is if a contender.

saddlerustle 9y ago
No, that was Zcoin. Different project run by fools.
mrb 9y ago
This was Zcoin, not Zcash. Multiple critical bugs have been found in Monero, eg. https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-i...
tehlike 9y ago
As of today, zcash still doesnt have a way to audit money supply.

tehlike 9y ago

Zcash doesnt have a way to validate monet supply, and it is not private by default, which is a big no. It also doesn't provide network level privacy (monero doesnt either, but kovri is in the works)

elmar 9y ago
> Zcash doesn't have a way to validate money supply A little know secret is that, Monero also doesn't have a way to validate money supply.

thisisit 9y ago

Zcash has two types of accounts - t-accounts which are transparent accounts and z-accounts which are hidden. Most exchanges don't allow z-accounts so, all the money has to be sent to a t-account. This creates a linkability issues which has been discussed in this blog post: http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactions/ http://jeffq.com/blog/on-the-linkability-of-zcash-transactio...