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pebxon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

Do your research before fucking other people, dude.

i2pd has been abandonned by their devs for roughly 6 months and they have not been available at all. Since the Monero team believed, i2p would be better than Tor, they forked i2pd to Kovri and started cleaning up the code and fixing bugs. Why not the official i2p Java client? Because of Java, which is not common in secure environments, fucks up Proxy settings or just ignores them eg.

pebxon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

On which one? There are hundreds in GitHub alone...

pebxon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

Rust is god. We got it. Now come back to topic...

Btw. are we already again in these HTML / Flash wars where the second one was shilled as the only possible future for websites and incoming death for HTML? Oh wait, children can't even remember it... Search for it on Wikipedia (or probably even a printed encyclopedia).

pebxon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

Come on, you know the history of the whole fucked up situation and now turning you into the role about the caring i2pd project manager? Let's say what we can see on GitHub in your repository...

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/graphs/contributors

Where have you been between June and November 2015? Kovri was meant to be just an integration of i2pd into Monero, not a fork. But yeah... When the only maintainer of a project is gone for half a year, what do you expect? Anyone familiar with Git is able to see when anonimal finally forked away...

https://github.com/monero-project/kovri/graphs/contributors

But yeah, then you came back and started developing again after 6 months of nothing? Just don't be like an offended asshole and maybe try to cooperate or just let it go the open source way and the better solution will probably get the most adoption.

pebxon Kovri – A secure, private, untraceable C++ implementation of the I2P network

I can tell you my reasons, but it's mainly the mandatory privacy, where every single transaction has to use RingCT and helps to protect the privacy of the whole network.

Zcash's very computing expensive shielded transactions are rarely used and no GUI (and mobile) wallets simply offer them. You can see this in their block explorer: https://explorer.zcha.in/transactions Here is some more information on their own forum: https://forum.z.cash/t/low-percentage-of-total-shielded-zec-... Most exchanges also don't accept shielded Zcash deposits/withdrawals.

DASH's private send is just similar to a bitcoin mixer and takes even more than 24 hours to finish, since the Masternodes have to wait for mixing partners for you. This mixing creates a shitload of transactions on chain, it were around 70 when I tested it lately and that's a huge overhead. That are probably the (main) reasons why it's rarely used and since Chainalysis, Blockseer and all the Bitcoin tracking companies have no troubles to track mixed transactions, like they did with Wanna Cry, I think it's only a matter of time to extend them for DASH with more adoption: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-exchange-shapeshift-h...

Summarising optional privacy makes where almost no one uses it, makes you suspect just for opting in for the privacy feature. It's also much easier to track just the few percent of private transactions by design.