I've been playing around with the three baggest contenders; Dash, Monero and Shadow. I've read up on the whitepapers too. Dash -- (originally darkcoin) seems to be the weakest of the three, but also the best-known.
Monero is interesting because it looks like people are trying to use it as a tumbling service -- buy 10 BTC worth of Monero on an exchange, "Teleport" it to a new monero wallet, and re-buy your BTC.
Shadow looks slick, and the whitepaper describing its theoretical workings (anonymously minting new coins every transaction) is pretty solid, but I inherently distrust any Crypto Coin with a very nice, responsive-ui site. You wouldn't need advertising if your code could stand on its own.
My question is; how likely do you think it is that we'll move to a completely different, anonymous coin than BTC soon? As in, within 2-3 years? It seems to me that the biggest pain point for OPSEC is how to get money in and out of the dark web. Wallets that completely obfuscate their senders and recipients would be massively helpful -- why haven't the markets jumped for one or the other of the above three?
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