They could've said the "so-called Privacy Coins" because the objective of the article is to prove that they indeed are privacy coins. They have not concluded yet on the opening statement.
Maybe the people don't trust the coin completely to be used on the dark web, checking that the user is almost zero. They have working privacy features for both Dash and ZCash but Dash has more use cases compared to ZCash.
Maybe the people don't trust the coin completely to be used on the dark web, checking that the user is almost zero. They have working privacy features for both Dash and ZCash but Dash has more use cases compared to ZCash.
The point of this article is that this two coins transactions can be traced. The "working" privacy features dont work!
Mixing transactions are very easy to spot and identify on the Dash blockchain. As they are still public and transparent, the exact same techniques that can be used to analyse CoinJoin transactions performed using Bitcoin can be used on Dash.
Zcash’s shielded pools can provide stronger privacy than mixing transactions but shielding is not bulletproof. Research at University College London showed that using simple heuristics based on shielded pool usage patterns reduces the anonymity. They showed that most Zcash users don’t use the privacy functionality at all. Of those who do interact with the shielded pools, the researchers showed that most do it in a straightforwardly identifiable way, such as withdrawing exactly the same amount of ZEC that they deposited very quickly afterwards.
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