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.

https://i.imgur.com/W1iG5Uq.png

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

Awesome work, SafeCoins !

If 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)