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Which privacy currency do you think is the best and why?

Explaining why you choose one over the others, will help others understand the purpose en possibilities of privacy coins better. Please no hostilities and childish remarks about other coins. All the top coins in this segment are well made, but differ in some aspects. Let us learn from eachother and not bash other projects just for personal gain.

I'm no expert and my choices may be flawed in some cases, forgive my ignorance if you think one project, doesn't belong in this poll or when i have not mentioned a project which deserves to be listed.

People like to fud and shit on Verge, but it's very fast, the wallets run exclusively over Tor, stealth addressing....and RingCT (xmr tech) is near completion. Awesome privacy coin.

Monero is obviously king but very slow. Komodo and Enigma are also cool but they are not pure currencies, and not on this list.

People shit on Verge because it is a literal scam. It suffered a 51% hack a few days ago - the dev literally didn't know how to fix it. In trying to fix it, they accidentally hardforked their chain without even realising it. The same incompetent dev asked for the community to give him $75 million in Verge on the promise of a partnership - once he had the money, he cancelled the announcement. Buying Verge now is the definition "dumb money".

I'm actually looking forward to their "announcement" on the 17th April. It is going to be their biggest shitshow to date, and this entire coin has just been one big shitshow. Popcorn on standby.

Recently, only one coin from this list shows good growth - it's XVG. I'm sure that she has a very great future and now her price is very cheap. I would consider it for a long-term investment!  :)

I agree.  I think Monero is at the top of the food chain for a reason.  The no pre-mine aspect is really important to me.   If I had to choose another I would choose Vertcoin, just because its community driven.  It lacks and is falling behind in technology to some of the others but the whole asic-resistant movement between these two coins really makes me happy.  I think Monero will be a 4 figure coin by the end of 2018 and Vertcoin will have another run.

PIVX - actually is missing here

 - I would add that to your poll since i would say that ranks rather highly against those you have listed if not better than most of them

I am surprised no one has mentioned Deep Onion. A few weeks ago, the thread would probably have been flooded with Deep Onion as the best from its massive community due to free airdrops  ;D. What's happening?

Anyway,I think Monero looks good for the title.

Sorry for your loss, but the lead dev fixed it almost immediately and as you should know he is active on this forum and  he announced it himself. Even more admirable, he even comes to warn the verge investors for possible scamms done in name of verge or bad exchanges.

We will see about the announcement, the verge devs have not lied untill now, so i expect the announcement to be done on time. We all know what drama was created the last time he was late a few hours with his announcement  ;D come on it was new years eve, can't the dude have a glass of champagne before getting back behind his pc lol

OP did say not to shit on other coins, but it is allright to point out flaws, and I definitely believe that Verge is one of those coins masquerading with technology but without good developers behind it. This is why my first choice always is Monero. And no, none of the forks. Monero is like Bitcoin, everybody thinks they are better but no one realizes how strong its development is. Or the community.

if you check the with papers of the coins that you are listed in your voting list. you will find out that XVG has a high rank in privacy. The mission and purpose of the XVG is to make daily transactions possible by the block-chain  all over the world and for the individual. It has the ability to work directly, and to carry out transactions with the user's privacy. With this currency, individuals and business owners can see and use a flexible option for transactions, and receive and send funds alongside them. With a new feature, users are able to easily manage their larger transactions among their smaller transactions.

monero and zcash are in the race but man verge pump & dumps are scary af, the FUD that goes inside the community is insane, how do i know it? well i once rode the pump, then dumped it. verge holders have often stated that it may go upto 100$ (insane,right?) without keeping in mind the total token supply, & recently now that latest news of 51% hack has added more jewels to the crown, now if someone still feels that it can be future of privacy then i must say we won't be having much privacy.

In blockchain attempts to hack will be an issue forever. It has happened and will happen again in different ways and with different targets.

Whomever said verge will go to 100$, was probably 12 year old kid. Best case scenario it wouldn't go over 1 to 3$ in the next year, unless huge amounts of money goes into crypto.

It has indeed pumped and dumped in the last few months, which is a very good thing for many who buy and sell at the right moments. Overall it has gone up huge in its run ( ath was about x50.000 lol which is crazy ). In any case and time frame you look at verge and  Considering other coins, it is still pretty stable despite the crises.
Deeponion despite being a very good project, has seen its price plummet. If you bought at all time high you have almost lost all your assets  ( on paper ) I'm sure when market trend is up, deeponion will go up, but for the people who bought few months back it must be very painful....
Btw i have verge, a bit deeponion and i had monero. Am not a fan of any coin, for me it is investment and i just support the idea behind crypto....not a project per se. I believe the crypto space will cange dramatically to the extent that will surprise all of us!

Personally i think verge has some things going for itself.
1- tech is as good as any other coin if not better. But i wish somebody with more knowedge could compare these on a more detailed level
2- dev team is active, there is developement and they are trying to market it ( one example is the announce partnership, hopefully with some financial services institution as far as rumors go )
3- The amount of total supply makes it more elligible to become a currency for day to day payments.

Only con for the coin i see ( compared to some others ) is that the amount of transaction is not private. Not sure if that matters to anybody, as long as the transaction can not be traced to a source. But maybe it would be better if they could hide that too.....?

Monero certainly! The most decentralized anonymous coin. my choice among anonymous blockchains.

Why is monero most decentralized?

for me its verge, its because it give user a turn on and off for the stealth mode and also its fast really fast

I recently liked Verge very much. I see that they are really working on their project, each time improving him updates

I think another project to consider would be Algebraix. Permission-based advertising platform that pays you to watch ads while keeping your personal data private. https://algebraix.io/

I'd say Monero is the time proven coin. It has proved its stability, sustainable development and has a strong dev core team. Many of the coins on the list have obvious problems with the developers. We already know about Verge epic fail, and I don't trust to deeponions devs.

I don't know which one is the best, but If I were to choose a coin, it would have to be based upon the size of, and commitment of its community, then just it's innovation alone. The coin can include all the features in the world,  but if isn't tested tried and true by an active group of participants, providing continuous support and feedback for the development of the project, it will lose the trust of the people.
  A big community isn't always necessarily a good thing, but in the case of crypto, a grass rooms community gives a coin it's foundation and infrastructure.
Just my two cents!

I think Electroneum should be on the list. Though privacy is not its focus, it is definitely a privacy coin. Built on Monero blockchain and they have some pretty interesting patents/partnerships that could make them one of the most widely used coins in the coming years.

If I were to choose, still stick with monero, why bother to use another coin which have significantly less market capitalization which could results in a huge inflation and price manipulation?
It's always better to stick with a more durable coin if it's about privacy, also, the other doesn't seem that have more advantages compared to monero though.

all crypto curency anonymous
so you can choose anything crypto curency if only privacy
but if must choose youre list , i choose monero

From those lists. I only knew about XVG and MONERO. I like XVG before it was shilled by John McAfee. The price suddenly spike. I like the wraith protocol of XVG.
But currently I not following much more info about XVG. Too much noobs XVG holder and FUD.

According to my way of thinking, Recently, only one coin from this list shows good growth - this is MONERO.because active development, good technology, and strong community and has a very good future.

Probably because people thought they were spamming every thing and don't want to be called that type of coin. Not sure if they would crack the top 3 like they are claiming but they certainly can't be the worst privacy coin out there (based off their marketing and website and everything in between, I don't have the tech knowledge to compare). If somebody would like to tell me why technically they aren't up to par, I would love to hear about it. Monero is the industry leader right now, nobody can deny this either.

If I am to choose the best base on some factors, I would rather choose Moner (xmr) base on the fact that, no premine, no crowdsale yet it has good working team.

If they had a rethink and decided to tone down the spamming because of that then it's a good thing. Btctalk forum will breathe a sigh of relief from them.

Secondly, they definitely are not in the top 3 as there is still Dash (masternode), Zcash and co to contend with.

There's no HUSH on the vote? ???

Lol didn't know about it and it is very small compared to other possible contenders, but you have just voted for it and made us know about hush.Thanks

Cool name btw  ;D