Dash has effectively a faulty privacy system
Your research I remember.
The only fault here is that this statement is faulty. I know that this BELIEVE is shared by Bitcoin core devs and moneros and keep saying this and people are picking this up because an "authority" says so. But it is plain simple. They are wrong. Just by saying such doesn't makes their wish of a "faulty" system true. They are wrong about Dash since years. They also "believed" InstantSend can not work just because they didn't want it to work or worse did not comprehend the whitepaper so they rediculed it and labeld dash snakeoil. Honestly their behaviour is very shameful and they make fools out of themself behaving like this. But people are not capable to comprehend the things by themself and so stick to "authorty" said this so it must be true. Don't fool yourself.
Cryptotechnical you can say it is a rather cheap done solution and this I agree in and you have to know what you do it is not quite easy to handle correctly. But faulty it is not. It works. You can not deanonymize the mixed coins ever when done correctly. (Contrary to when it's "just" encrypted in the blockchain)
Whenever I show someone Dash I explain him or her the normal use case because for 99% this is enough. It is "lightening" fast and cheap as it should be and has to be for a cash coin contrary to what bitcoin has become now thanks to that so "clever" core devs.
And I explain the InstantSend feature because that is just a simple click on the checkbox. About private send I only say don't use it except you really need the feature because it will make things a lot more complicate for you.
It will probably be a fight between BCH and DASH.
Now you get it. Thanks.
If Bitcoin fails than we will likely see Litecoin, BCH and/or DASH as the next best for cashing used main coins or a total collaps of the cryptomarket. At least those coins have a good way grown up community and so a "fight" won't end up in "my coin is better than your coin" spam in the other coins thread ... at least I hope that. We will see.
There are also other promising projects out now which could flip everything on the head.. who knows what is comming this year.
2017 was already a crazy year. Cripled Bitcoin rose to 20000 dollar. That's absolutly brain dead crazy if you think about that.