Reposted here because limited response in slack...
Putting whichever crypto religion we've sworn our allegiance to this week aside, I'm looking for feedback here:
I can swap some btc for some
zcash using bitsquare, perform a zcash transaction to break any traceability and sell my zcash (on bitsquare again) and get myself a lovely new btc with no previous history that can be linked to me.
I can perform the exact same series of steps and achieve the exact same result with
zcoin (because it too is based on the zerocoin protocol).
So why then is zcash $70 (down from +2MM) whilst zcoin is $0.70c (down from $10) when the only extra thing zcash seems to offer is undetectable money creation due to the necessity of a trusted setup (which zcoin also had but due to the visibility of the money supply detecting a compromise would be arbitrary)?
The knee jerk reaction I'm expecting is that "
it's more anonymous because you cannot see the transaction values" but this is a moot point imo because the whole purpose is to cryptographically break the transaction history which is achieved by both.
Isn't it true that the extra lengths zcash goes to is more like 'security theatre', just like when the zcash founders burned the computer which generated the master private keys. Yeah it looked nice but... so what?
In summary then, why would someone pay 100x more for an equivalent feature found in another coin? Apart from undetectable fraud and higher resource consumption what does zcash offer over zcoin?
Also check out the
zcoin and
zcash roadmaps respectively.
ps
Don't give me that 'topological analysis' c**p bacause you can see the amounts, you cannot follow coins around in the zcoin blockchain, it's
impossible which is why zerocoin was described as perfect money over 3 years ago.
I'm not trying to troll, I'm genuinely intrigued as to what the zcash community knows that I don't?
pps
zcoin is not a zcash clone, in fact zcoin is older than zcash because it was launched ~1 week earlier.
trying to understand why you posted here...
anyway, i'll answear you.
zcash is more expensive because the market wanted that way. simple as that...
it's a mix of marketing, development and love
you could apply this same question to any crypto with similar projects.
ps: good luck komodo!
my first Post 
(i am a newbie 🙈But you will still hear a lot from me but only good ones 
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