Anonymous cryptocurrencies.

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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[1 Points] yalldontknowjack:

I think the big anonymity problem we will see in the next 2-3 years is exchanging fiat for crypto. Regulation on BTC is increasing. I wouldn't be surprised if lbc was shut down, and all ways to purchase BTC required identification. I think all other fiat>crypto are going to fall under the same regulations.


[1 Points] earthmoonsun:

I trust Shadow, they have active developers. I would only be suspicious of a slick design if the writings are just empty talking (e.g. NeuCoin, Paycoin)
Monero looks promising, too. Don't know about Dash.


[1 Points] lordredvampire:

Shadowcoin will have their own Marketplace integrated on the client. This is a major plus. And besides, it's untrackable - another major plus.


[1 Points] throwaway4ever1234:

why nobody says a word about BitcoinDark? BTCD is totally worth to be named as anoncoin. And i think it will be the anoncoin in future, just my 2cents.