monero is by far the best but that simply will never happen.
monero is a feature currency, and it's feature is something that's coming when we have second layers like plasma/lightning. once you have those in place, it's very easy to make transactions as private as monero.
Drugs and cp are memes also, nobody needs that shit. If the success of your shitcoin is determined by the marketplace for preteen interracial snuff porn, then you need to keep your expectations low.
Monero is "hardened" every six months and there's plenty of things coming out (including mobile mining and ledger support), scalability is currently being improved and once that's out (cheaper and faster than litecoin), I could see it being the number one crypto.
once we get to the "panic" stage of this crash. as the overall crypto market crashes and burns monero may also lose a lot of value but it will do well relative to other stuff. if we werent in a bubble, or if we were in an extended downtrend, it should be at least top 5
imagine being so dumb that you actually believe that LN will be more private that Monero.
Good luck with your LN nodes that are required to KYC you before you make a transaction.
>coin with actual use case that is actually being used
>devs aren't attentionwhores
>coin makes no promises of giving you the moon
>the only privacy coin that isn't a honeypot
works fine for me. i've been buying drugs and cheap probably-stolen electronics with xmr for like 2 years now
>cutting out the middleman dealer/fence and getting better quality product for lower prices
i'm lovin' it
>it's very easy to make transactions as private as monero.
optional privacy compromises the whole system. again, any "privacy" coin that has optional privacy, has devs that speak out against illegal activity, etc, is a honeypot.
Not understanding the value of darknet markets being legit one of the only ways cryptos are actually used right now
>LN
where did i say lightning would make transactions private? second layers simply make it trivial to add privacy, since you dont have to wait for on-chain advances or hard forks.
the concept of locking funds on-chain, and then being able to transfer them in any way you like, and then un-locking and redistributing them again on-chain makes it possible. and just like monero, once you lock the coins, if people accept the privacy layer's token, you'll never have to unlock them to make a payment, in the exact same way paying people directly with monero works.
monero is definitely the best for privacy today, but you have to be as delusional as those bcash sjws to think it's going to take over ethereum and bitcoin for their single feature alone.
it's not optional, it's a privacy token valued at 1:1 of the underlying. it's no different that using monero, you need people to accept monero directly, just like you need people to accept the 1:1 privacy token version of btc or eth directly, to see the benefits, and since the vast majority of all txs in the future will be on second layers, it only makes sense.
None of these shit coins deserve being at the top, including monero