Feature | Dash | Monero | ShadowCoin | AnonyMint's "VaporCoin" | BitShares DPOS |
Anonymity | Spyware potentially improving | Unprovable | Unprovable | No | Incomplete |
Mass-scale txns | Broken, Unfixable | No | Yes | 100+ TX/sec | |
Instant txns | Broken, Unfixable | No | No | Yes | No |
GUI wallet | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Browser wallet | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Microtransactions wallet | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Unlimited public block chains per PoW chain | No | No | No | Yes | No |
Launched to millions of users | No | No | No | Planned | No |
IPO or mineable by speculators | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Bitcoin interoption | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | Planned | ![]() |
Mobile App | Yes | Yes | No | Browser app | Browser app |
Browser/SPV wallet | Planned | Yes | Yes | Yes | ![]() |
Proof-of-Stake Politics (non-decentralized governance) | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
Research | Dunning-Krugerish! | Above average, several smart dudes | Minimal, mostly plagiarism | Above average, but only 1 dude | |
Development (10 is highest) | 5 | 6 | 6 | ¼ | 8 |
Network & security model | Fixed cost Vulnerable[1] Proof-of-Stake | Unbounded cost Satoshi proof-of-work | Fixed cost Vulnerable[1] Proof-of-Stake | Unbounded cost Perfected proof-of-work | Fixed cost Vulnerable[1] Proof-of-Stake |