If only 1% of transactions are used for anonymity you will have massive timing anonymity leaks and such. If you take transparent coins, convert to anon, pay someone, and he converts back (both of which are logical if most commerce is taking place non-anonymously) then the whole thing is quite obviously traceable.
I don't really see much advantage to a coin that is 99% transparent, and definitely see disadvantages. Just use Bitcoin, or if you really want PoS, use whatever is the leading PoS coin, probably BitShares I guess. BitShares has stealth addresses by the way.
It does not. The creation and destruction process is entirely transparent.
Smooth is right Shadow is very similar to cryptonote. I was reading cryptonote whitepaper, and its some genius stuff going on in there. We should be honest about what the system is and its pros and cons. I like Monero, seems like a cool coin, much better than DRK. I do think Shadow does have some advantages being on a bitcoin blockchain. Also I believe Shadow differs in the anonymity system in one major way from what I can tell, and that is the destruction and minting of SDC. To me it seems like this extra part of the system does something extra to sever the link between identities, but I could be wrong. Hopefully the review will help clarify that. Hope our communities can all be friends, as we all are striving for the same goal of privacy and anonymity.
Well i agree with you that the Bitcoin codebase and APIs, etc. are an advantage in terms of integration, etc. I don't agree that the minting/destruction add value to anonymity, and in fact I think the opposite as I explained above. But overall yes the more popular APIs and such are valuable.
I don't think the communities are or need to be unfriendly but there is some confusion that has been spread about the nature of the Shadow solution that has led to some frustration on both sides. We certainly share the goal of greater privacy.