It is funny Monero set its eye on Bitcoin, when there are tokens like Zcash at its tail. What Zcash team needs to do is to look for a Dark market adoption, all the noise about Monero will die down.
not a fan of DNM myself but Monero with ringct is superior to Zcash in many ways most not obvious to noobs that only listen to hype:
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Anonymity set: Monero (although the zcash proponents note that a ring signature is a "smaller" anonymity set, they usually don't mention that the stealth address factor actually means that each transaction is masked, whereas the ring signatures provide additional plausible deniability, furthermore, since keys appear in different ring signatures, the anonymity set for when a given key is spent grows infinitely, and could eventually grow larger than the zcash anonymity set at any fixed instant in time) vs Zcash (anonymity set is the entire blockchain).
