Monero is quite different . Zerocash is technically a superior technology but absolutely is useless in the 2010 ' s , and possibly for much of the 2020 ' s . The cryptography , while more opaque , also had several major technical hurdles to overcome which absolutely can ' t be surmounted without years of ' live alpha testing ' my affectionate term for the version that is out now . Monero works wonderfully and works now , in 2016 . Additionally with Ring CT coming in 2017 , it will have technically compatible anonymity to zerocash barring the most intense and extreme analysis by large states . You have directly seen how this technology can grow to thousands of times its size in a very short amount of time , and you can see the mathematical and technical merits of it . Why do you believe we will simply keep doing things the good ol way because people are comfortable with that ? It ' s simply not gonna happen . The world will move to cryptographic networks of value as standards , whether they like it or not . Those who get involved early as in now , before 2020 will become obscenely wealthy , and those holdouts who think they are trash will be forced into the standard by society in the late 2020 ' s . Ten years ago , I thought the idea of my family being on social media was laughable too .