Been trying to stay away from mega threads lately but I just felt compelled to share this, was reading an article on coindesk this morning about the take down of alpha bay and the seizure of all of Alaxander Cazes's assets. From the article they talk about how they pretty much caught him red handed, exactly how they caught Ross with his laptop open and un-encrypted with all the evidence right there.

What I found really interesting was the description of his crypto assets, check out the quote from the article:

"Cazes possessed more than $8.8 million in cryptocurrencies pooled across 1,605.05 bitcoins, 8,309.27 ether, 3,691.98 zcash and an unknown amount of monero"

LOL, an "unknown" amount of monero, yall know he had to have a shit ton but what intrigued me was that they still didn't know how much, does this not show that in practice monero is and will be the most private crypto out there? I like Zcash and Monero but I believe Monero is inherently more private. What yall think?


Here is the article if anyone interested, front page of coindesk today, good read:
https://www.coindesk.com/us-court-seizes-lambo-and-crypto-millions-from-dead-dark-web-kingpin/

I'm recently diving into Monero but also Zcash and Grin. Is there a paper I can read in order to get the plus and cons of the privacy protocols used by these 3 projects? Thanks

Any coin that has optional privacy is total crap as privacy coin. It might work for something else, I don't know, their use is not clear.

Waiting for the hardfork 

legday is talking about optional privacy. Which means you can chose if you wish your transactions to be Anonymous or not (i. e. Zcash, Dash). Many people thinks that this is not good and can be detrimental for coins privacy. Most of Monero community believes privacy must be there by default.
Blog about ZCash annonimity https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/14/an-empirical-analysis-of-anonymity-in-zcash/

Could you try "reactivating" it before you close the GUI?

So you can bind the daemon and the RPC to other IPs/ports with the above command line arguments (p2p-bind and rpc-bind respectively)

Do not know how Zcash, I watched him very little. Here is a Monero good coin.
Only I think I need to come up with a purse that will work faster.

not piling on, yes Zcash in z mode is very strong as long as there's enough z transactions going on. AFAIK it's still theoretically possible to stick out like a sore thumb. Dash had a great marketing run in the Bull market after they dropped the darkcoin name but it's really just a BTC mixer.

i made decent gains on Dash, Zcash, Particle and Nav but it recently became obvious XMR was/is dominating this category like the 1972 NFL Dolphins.  I keep reading more in our crooked mainstream news about how 'bad' Monero is. Not much about the others.

And everytime it gets dragged through the news I buy a little more.