Monero:
✅ issuance decentralized (anyone can participate and mine)
✅ issuance predictable and known
Ecash:
❌ issuance centralized (only the mint can arbitrarily issue)
❌ issuance not predictable or known
The advantages over Monero (and even Bitcoin) that I can think of:
-nearly instant transactions
-txns can be cheaper/free
-it is offchain/ephemeral (no blockchain - potentially more private and scalable)
-It is 1:1 to BTC (ostensibly)
Other disadvantages:
-ruggable
-requires permission to swap out for underlying asset