Quote from: SafeCoins on December 31, 2017, 07:52:16 AM

The following is an updated attempt to assess and evaluate:

  1. Enhancements/Protocols:

   a. Anonymous Capabilities / Anonymity
   b. Privacy
   c) Security

  2. The coins that currently implement these features

Every will be made to assume none of these coins are a complete solution (yet). Not because they're bad, but because a lot of the other comparison threads out there have been polarized toward one coin as the "solution with all the best end to end features".

I would really appreciate your thoughts and input on this work in progress, so that together, we can make it even more complicated and unreadable.

Anonymous, Privacy, and Security features are clearly all related to one another, yet in my mind are distinct:

Anonymous features ultimately aim for the holding and transacting of a commodity which both requires and releases zero identifying information.
   Buy a pizza. No receipt, no exchange of information, no record of the pizza or you.
   There are obvious legal implications to this, causing it to be a "dark" feature.
   However, this slander assumes that the governing body itself is not "dark", or corrupt. In many places in the world, Anonymity is a matter of life and death.
   As such, Anonymity is a double edged sword, aiding both sinister and altruistic efforts.
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)


Privacy features aim to give ownership of identifying information to individuals/entities who hold or transact a commodity.
   Buy a pizza, there's a record of it but that record is for you (and potentially the pizza shop) only.
   There is a legal arguement for privacy features. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law

Security: If you can hack the thing, you need not worry about Anonymity and Privacy. Those are out.

Some other attempts at this:

Full list of anonymous coins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1025878.0

[DASH/XDN/XMR/SDC] Comparison between the most known anonymous coins
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985039.0

Privacy getting important: Verge or Spectrecoin or DeepOnion??
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2397519.0;all

Which cryptocurrency is most anonymous?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2157374.0

https://zcoin.io/zcoins-privacy-tec

Wondering about this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0

How come that you excluded AEON that is the second most prosperous anonymous coin?