when you really break it down and assume they are both not pnd shitcoins the winner will be the one who offers the best way to reach privacy, because this is the niche they are aiming for.
now you can start to think about which groups like privacy and start making assumptions about whether the utility of privacy is elastic or non-elastic.
after that you probably have the winner - or you conclude that this coin is not invented at all at this point of time.
Privacy is not the only niche DRK excels at. Real-time transaction confirmations is another feature that might be essential for some, and useful for everyone, and all of its applications are not yet discovered. Masternodes offer an investing opportunity for those who are not into mining, and the features and applications that could be built on top of the masternode network open up a lot of new possibilities.
exactly - drk is in my opinion the most innovative bitcoin fork which exists (and probably the best).
additionally it has some interesting incentive structures
nevertheless it is a
fork of bitcoin and the basic architecture of bitcoin is a
transparent blockchain.
I believe in two things at least mid-term. a) no coin will replace bitcoin b) there are small niches which can be filled, the biggest of the small niches is privacy.
XMR is by core private - privacy has a non-elastic utility, therefore at this point of time there is no real competitor to xmr for this niche. money is an institution and economic network effects matter in cryptocurrency, therefore the likelyhood of xmr (in case it can solve its technical merits) for being the dominant private ledger is a this point quite high.
last year there was this altcoin observer started bie rpietela and the first 50 pages are worth reading for every person being interested in cryptoeconomics, especially the posts by PeterR are nuggets
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