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.
https://i.imgur.com/W1iG5Uq.pngAnonymous, 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_lawSecurity: 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=985039.0Privacy getting important: Verge or Spectrecoin or DeepOnion??
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2397519.0;allWhich cryptocurrency is most anonymous?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2157374.0https://zcoin.io/zcoins-privacy-tecWondering about this one:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2525344.0If you don't mind a suggestion, it would be nice to have a column telling if all transactions are private or there may be non-private (transparate) transactions. It is a feature having pros (transparency may be interesting in some cases) and cons (if few people use the privacy feature of the coin, it exposes the private users)
