I want to pay a hooker without my wife knowing.

Do I read a mantra on what money should be written by a pseudoeconomist and buy a coin with same the anonymity level as bitcoin?

Or do I use the coin that's agreed upon to have the best anonymity?

How will I ever decide? 

You are one of the few people that have figured out that if you are honest and up front most people will go game theory with it and end up screwing themselves out of an opportunity.

I'm mean to dashers because I keep winning the same arguments with them and a week later I have to repeat the process all over again--it's like groundhog day without the hot girl.

First, you can get on github and verify the math--which experienced cryptographers have done. Having to verify each transaction when you can simply verify the math that regulates each transaction seems a bad (inefficient) way to go about things. If you don't understand cryptography, you should admit it and move on or learn it and add to the conversation--its like you are telling a physicist that a neutrino doesn't exist because you can't see it or understand the math. And asking them to teach you the math is a task that is probably not possible for most humans and wouldn't be fair to ask, even if you could learn it, because you are on a forum and you aren't paying them to tutor you. Christof Paar has a great intro course online if you are interested.

I also think it's rude that you mislabel people's honest labor in an effort to spin the argument away from Todd's comments, so don't throw rocks. Unless you can disprove the math behind ring signitures, you're barking up the wrong tree. This is old and proven cryptography that has yet to be broken. But besides the math there is an analysis that doesn't require any math whatsoever; if monero's coin distribution suffered from any anomalies, you would be sure to hear about it from exchanges, wallet holders, and developers in the space. This hasn't happened since its birth, so i guess math, even really cool and complex math, works as expected.

Then stop wasting our time and learn cryptography.

Monero works like a trustless (human trutless/mathematical proven) decentralized cryptographical system. Saying it any other way is lying.

DDOS is to control the majority of nodes, not to directly reduce the anonymity set--though by doing so while monitoring the nodes you posses would break anonymity--which was my point. Nice suggestion, but wouldn't an attacker take control of the nodes before any measures were taken, while it was cheapest, and while they could gain the most info for the longest time without raising any red flags? Also, you still have no measure in reality or in the works to stop an organization from using coercion or compliance to motivate a node operator to turn over data--this is even better since the whatevermine granted the first users such a large stash of coins and the masternodes are most likely concentrated in a few hands. But here's the big problem: masternodes are human controlled intermediaries that perform important functions. Whatever breaks dash's anonymity will happen because you trust this moronic system that is begging to be broken. You are playing a game of whack-a-mole and apparently no one in dashland has the theoretical capability to see it or the moral compass to speak up. Snake oil.

LOL. Here's the attack vector Evan created out of ignorance, stupidity or pure not giving a fuck.

The easiest attack is to buy masternodes and ddos attack competing nodes until you own the traffic. Evan claims it's financially implausible, but ignores that nodes are most profitable when there about a 1,000 masternodes (he has a ROI graphic on the dash BCT thread that underscores this). He also ignores that the attacker would be pulling incomes from these masternodes--given that most are held on corporate servers underlies that no one knows who owns them outside of the host and the owner. He also ignores how motivated an attacker may be, that he or another masternode operator might comply given the right circumstances (threat or lawful compliance) and how deep LE's pockets are--silly, dangerous, stupid.

If you trust that system knowing the flaws, you deserve whatever comes your way--except maybe being linked to pedophiles--can you show that link on your explorer?

Smooth has covered this with you and the other dashtards on multiple occasions. I need to save it so i can copy and paste it to your foreheads. Not that it makes dash any less snake oily.

And considering this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753252.msg11919024#msg11919024 the timing would be pretty uncanny.

But how to do it right? That's the big question.

  I'm smiling so hard it hurts! Oh the pain, the sweet, sweet pain!

I can digest it, but it sits in my head the same way Thetans do when Tom Cruise waxes idiotic.

One of the hallmarks of eloquence is condensing large ideas into the smallest format available. This is what makes poetry so powerful and good speeches so short. When Shakespeare said, "Brevity is the soul of wit." He was saying wit with both its humorous and intellectual properties intact--adding example to meaning--Tok is about as eloquent as he is witty.

He's trying to rationalize dash is better than bitcoin and monero at the things bitcoin and monero are best at. Bitcoin is the world's largest most secure decentralized clear blockchain. Monero is the world's largest and most secure decentralized opaque blockchain. He thinks (or wants us to believe)that masternodes are the preferred bridge between these two networks, but refuses to see (or admit) masternodes for what they really are: middlemen who can be bought and have control over the network they are supposed to decentralize and secure--so yeah, he is actually replacing bankers with masternodes and saying it is a good thing. Good for him and the other dash bagholders, bad for anyone who wants decentralization and/or privacy.

I wrote moron or deluded by greed (cognitive dissonance).

We obscure cash every day in our wallets. People decided that, they actually created a thing to hide their money in because they either liked the privacy or thought they needed it--in your backwards dashworld, people are wearing their cash around their necks.

He doesn't understand how cash works either. He wants us all to live our digital lives without the wallet blindness afforded us by a leather wallet. He thinks all account balances should be public and on display for governments, mobsters, hackers, business competitors and our wives--Tok doesn't even get why people wouldn't want this public knowledge--he's a fucking moron or so deluded with his fantasy of dash becoming THE global currency that he misses the whole point of an anon coin--hiding shit when you want, showing shit when you want.

Will anyone be attending the I2p conference?

https://geti2p.net/en/blog/post/2015/07/16/I2PCon

Must be that sweet pedo money rolling in. Guess we'll see when the feds get interested. 

That's faulty reasoning and you ignore Peter's analysis at your own peril. Once a theoretical attack happens, it will be too late for those engaged in the system--like a snake oil salesman pointing to his healthy assistant as proof that his oil is the real-deal and will solve your problems. Meanwhile traces of asbestos in the magic potion are giving long term users cancer.

Masternodes add an attack vector and any cryptographer worth a damn will point out that these systems are fragile enough without adding things that will complicate their workings until the point they don't work as intended. *A month back, I calculated that 95% of masternodes were concentrated on corporate hosting sites within the borders of 5 countries--all friendly and most likely willing to share data on something as abhorrent as pedophiles mining a coin for illicit use-- this is only one attack vector available.  Maybe instead of saying he's wrong because there isn't yet proof that the coin has been compromised, you could ask him to document his findings and pay him for his time.

* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1077613.0