IMO Monero is much weaker than Zcash. Here’s my case:

Ok so think about hiding a playing card. You could shuffle it into fifteen other cards, and now someone has to guess which one. Or you could make it vanish into millions of identical cards where finding it is mathematically impossible.

That’s basically Monero vs Zcash.

Monero uses ring signatures. Your transaction gets mixed with fifteen decoys, so there’s sixteen possible senders. Sounds fine except sixteen is just… not a lot? It’s a guessing game. Japanese police literally traced Monero transactions and arrested eighteen people for fraud.

Zcash shielded transactions hide among millions of encrypted notes. There’s nothing to track because your transaction looks identical to everything else in the pool. It’s not “hard to trace,” it’s basically literally impossible.

The Monero devs know this btw. They’re researching switching to zero-knowledge proofs. Which is what Zcash uses.

Also worth mentioning Monero got delisted from pretty much every major exchange and Zcash is still on Coinbase and Gemini. Take that however you want.

Basically Monero hides you in a small crowd and hopes nobody looks too hard. Zcash makes you vanish. One of those ages well, one doesn’t.

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