If Dash was 90th on marketcap it wouldn't even be in the comparison, but too many people buy it because of it's "anonymity" feature ... It may be why it needs to be compared to real anon coins.
And you can't compare a pump & dump like Cloakcoin (many many people were burnt on that coin), and a coin like Dash that kept a good value after each pump.
You're right on "digitalnote", comparison should be updated next week.
True to your subject heading, then, the focus is on the most known, rather than the most anonymous. Which is interesting, but unfortunate that the two are far from the same thing.
A couple questions:
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Have you looked at cloakcoin since their dpos3 implementation? IMHO they have evolved far past the "shit coin" stage, but curious as to what impact others thinks this has.
http://cloakcoin.com/downloads/posa3wp.pdf2.
Is Monero truely anonymous? I am not so sure. More interesting still, some Monero Devs will Admit that the coin isn't fully anonymous, with known solutions, yet none have been implemented.
https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdfBased on this, IMHO, the only Truly anonymous Cryptonote coin (other than the Digitalnote hybrid) is Boolberry.
Granted: Boolberry is far less popular, has less value, and there are big questions around future DEV involvement, as you've pointed out.
But unfortunately, "well-known" does not necessarily imply true anonymity.