A better comparison would probably be DRK vs BBR (Boolberry)
Darkcoin provides a reasonable solution for making
anonymous transactions. Boolberry has the best CryptoNote implementation to date, ihmo.
Let me sum this up for you.
The technology behind cryptonote obliterates darkcoin. It's mathematically provable, it doesn't have random nodes that mostly exist in the amazon cloud to mix shit.
Monero cons
Original authors are scam artists so other devs have taken it over (for XMR)
Low market cap
Mostly held up by bitcoin whales who have no experience in altcoins
Not enough money to fund development (devs are using their own money). Probably will run out at some point and project will die.
Kinda fubar'd emission
Dark cons
Massive premine
Alternated emission curve to jack price up (make early guys rich on shoulders of late guys after the fact). Use of node required funding to prop price up.
Spaghetti code
Hypeish name that attracts the wrong crowd
Project will die as soon as devs don't have more coins to unload on a market they create by releasing features. Even if that isn't the case, changing emission curve as dramatically as it was PLUS the massive instamine will kill it longterm.
This I think is a very accurate description of the cons. I think the underlying theme is they are both bullshit and
better can be done.
What about ShadowCash:
http://www.slideshare.net/shadowcash/presentation3-43827434If Shadow truly does what they say, then its the only coin to offer true anonymity with non-interactive zero knowledge proofs. This along with dual-key stealth addresses, and ring signatures for further obfuscation means its an obvious winner does it not? The dual key stealth addresses are also very important also for severing the link between transactions.
Monero uses ring signatures for obfuscation and its just another form of mixing, from what I understand. DRK is also more mixing and coinjoin. Shadow is the only coin using zero knowledge from what I have seen. Correct me if I'm wrong. What do you think of Shadow? Am I just shilling? Because to me it honestly seems like the best solution, but I am open to change my mind if someone can offer any insight, thanks.