Dont trust zcash - made by the blue team. Doubt they burnt the master ring sig key. Boooo! On Sun, 17 Sep 2017, grarpamp wrote:
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:37:27 -0400 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Why I can't sleep soundly with blockchain, being the cypherpunk
More on Monero vs Zcash (including usual armchair and bias)...
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/70kx3g/let_me_clear_some_th... https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/wiki/comparison
They're not so easy to compare due to being different approaches with evolving development in each. Here's a partial family tree, newest generally towards the bottom...
https://getmonero.org/ - Monero XMR
http://zerocoin.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocoin https://smartcash.cc/ - Smartcash SMART https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=846471 - Zerovert ZER https://zcoin.io/ - Zcoin XZC http://zerocash-project.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerocash https://credacash.com/compare - Credacash, license issues https://z.cash/ - Zcash ZEC http://zclassic.org/ - Zclassic ZCL https://zensystem.io/ - Zencash ZEN
As usual, a few years / generations out will see new coins emerge that combine both old and new elements into more capable, private, anonymous, overlay transport, txrate, resistant, encrypted, trust less / mitigated setup, mixed, ringed, whatever, etc solutions.
And exchanges, whether 'git clone and host on darknets', or fully distributed (blockchain / p2p), and whether funds-on/off-exchange, are complete greenfield and a highly needed ecosystem part that's still missing.
Some early examples...
b0z0@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org