FYI Dero privacy is still broken from earlier this year as Luke Parker demonstrated. Still no fix. Zano was like 80% premined or something crazy like that and has "dumb" smart contracts. They're not true smart contracts. There is supposed to be a Monerotopia debate with Zano community and Monero tomorrow about this.
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So what would you choose?
Aside from Monero - Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Nano are all interesting to me for different reasons, but they all have their own downsides of course.
Litecoin has MWEB (substantially better privacy than default Bitcoin - though not quite as good as Monero)
Bitcoin Cash has some new LargeInt operator thing that they're talking about building ZK privacy with
Eth has actual smart contracts and some privacy tech stuff though not as popular. Right now their L2s suck though all are centralized hopefully they fix that over time.
Nano is mostly interesting for it's DAG instant and feeless transactions, but it's DPoS so malicious actors can potentially censor the entire chain with only 34% stake, not as robust as PoW in that sense
if a single rep, or even several colluded, users can choose to change their rep. Individuals can continually route around a censoship attempt.
zero anonymity is the biggest drawback. imagine monero privacy on nano !
also, the oracle used for assets and confidential layer is third party custodial.
not much info on the oracle system and code either
where is the debate ?
Oh word. I haven't been following stuff at all lately.
dero community called it a "bug" and then their main dev, "the captain" disappeared after a non-statement about the issue