ANC has not lost the zk race to SDC yet! Every coin has its problems. Lets complete our checklist and get back to the top! Innovation has taken longer than expected to implement but there is still hope!
If you look at the timestamps, Fluffy pony made those comments before shadowsend v2 was open source...
Yep, that's correct. I made the first two comments with respect to
commit 94bfb03. Thereafter (the following day)
commit 317b9b1 was made and pushed to the repo, and subsequently pointed out to me. I reviewed that, and thus updated that thread with the additional comment.
Honestly, I don't really care to get into a this-coin-that-coin debate. Kudos to the dev(s) for actually putting in effort to implement a very simplified ring signature system. If they add bad utxo blacklisting and also provide a suitable fix for the chain reaction privacy reveal outlined
in Monero Research Lab's MRL-0001 research bulletin they are well on their way to implementing one half of the two core privacy principles espoused in Monero's cryptography (that is to say, they would then be able to provide a measure of cryptographic untraceability, but not cryptographic unlinkability).