I've been minting, sending and buying zcoin for the past few days and I honestly feel that it is equal to (and in many ways greater than) zcash.

In fact I find I am much more comfortable with zcoin because it has received almost no hype and so is rationally priced as opposed to zcash which started life on the markets at a blistering $2,000,000 each if I'm not mistaken.

Zcoin and zcash for crypto reasons were initially setup using a system which requires trust on the developers part which means that if the setup were to be compromised it would be immediately visible on the zcoin chain but completely undetectable on the zcash chain because you cannot see the currency amounts.

Some may argue at this point that zcoin is inferior in terms of privacy because the amounts are visible and if you believe that to be the case then you do not understand how the zerocoin protocol works or why it's been a topic of such note and discussion for the past few years.

Zerocoin was proposed by Johns Hopkins University professor Matthew D. Green and graduate students Ian Miers and Christina Garman. Not exactly a fly-by-night outfit I'm sure you'll agree.

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Disclaimer, I don't work for zcoin but I am a software developer and I do develop security oriented applications based on crypto.