@ -74,15 +74,38 @@ node level to measure them in real-time.</p>
<h2id="anonymity-sets-of-various-coins">Anonymity sets of various coins</h2>
<p>It’s certain that <ahref="https://pirate.black/?zec=milktoast"target="_blank">Pirate</a> (ARRR) has the largest Zcash Protocol anonymity set, even though most community members
are dumb-founded if you ask them to define what it is. It’s likely that <ahref="https://arrowchain.io/?zec=milktoast"target="_blank">Arrow</a> (ARW), a recent Pirate
competitor, has a larger anonset than Hush as well. This is a basic fact of z2z-only chains: they will
almost always have higher zaddr usage percentage and anonsets, since it’s enforced at a consensus level.</p>
<p>
According to the latest data which can be seen on <ahref="https://explorer.hush.land"target=_blank>explorer.hush.land</a> or verified by running a Hush full node with -zindex=1 ...
</p>
<h1>HUSH Has The Largest Anonset Of Any Privacy Coin!</h1>
<p>
We are very proud of this fact, and worked hard to get here. Here are the exact stats:
<p>NOTE: The above stats only track Sapling anonset data. Pirate has two anonsets (Sprout and Sapling) and Zcash currently has three anonsets (Sprout, Sapling, Orchard) which
hurts each coin, since it's anonset stats are split across different sets.
</p>
<p>
In the past this place was held by <ahref="https://pirate.black/?cg=lulz"target="_blank">Pirate</a> (ARRR) but Hush quickly surpassed them because of our Sietch technology.
This is because Sietch gives z2z transactions 8 outputs on average, which means our anonset velocity is much larger. Hush adds to it's anonset at a much greater speed than
Pirate adds to it's anonset. This can also be seen from the fact that the current HUSH mainnet is much younger than Pirate mainnet, but our anonset is 29% larger. Another
way to look at this is per block. Hush has added, on average, <fontcolor=red>0.8945</font> to it's anonset per block, while Pirate has added only <fontcolor=red>0.3858</font> to it's anonset per block, on average. Pirate's low number is also related to the fact that all early transactions where in the Sprout anonset which is currently locke, unspendable, and trivially distinguishable to a blockchain analyst from their Sapling anonset data.
</p>
<p>In terms of Zcash Protocol coins which do not (yet) enforce z2z, the author believes Hush is currently
the coin with highest zaddr usage (<ahref="https://hush.is/supply/?zec=milktoast">14.5% as of July 19th 2020</a>) and largest anonset (about 93,000).
When Hush enforces shielded only transaction in November 2020 at <ahref="https://hush.is/halving/?zec=milktoast">Block 340,000</a> , we will join Pirate and
Arrow in being the only enforced-privcay Zcash Protocol coins.</p>
<p>Since no other coins can measure theirs in real-time, we implore Zcash, Pirate, Arrow and all Zcash Protocol coins to port the
Hush Shielded Index <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">-zindex</code> so that we can have industry-wide comparison of our privacy, in real-time. If we cannot
@ -96,11 +119,16 @@ the difference between a daily count of transactions and the current set of priv
They are completely different, yet he talks as if they are the same. All graphics
from Swihart and Zcash Company related to transaction counts are <em>NOT</em> anonymity sets counts.
They are transaction counts, which is not related directly to anonsets at all. It’s possible
to have very high transaction counts and very small anonsets.</p>
to have very high transaction counts and very small anonset sizes.</p>
<p>Zcash Company does not understand that the anonset can change with every block, and go up and down.
For instance, if I use 10 shielded spends but only create 1 shielded output, that transaction
will reduce the size of the anonset by 9, since 10 - 1 = 9.</p>
<p>Zcash Company does not seem to understand that the anonset can change with every block, and go up and down.
For instance, if Alice uses 10 shielded spends but creates 2 shielded outputs (the default transcation with change), that transaction
will reduce the size of the anonset by 9, since 10 - 1 = 9. This is what happens on both Zcash and Pirate. But on Hush, we have Sietch,
which gives the default transaction 8 outputs, and so the same transaction would only reduce the Hush anonset size by 1. This is one
of the reasons why Hush has the largest anonset size: We add more outputs than any other coin in an average transaction and we subtract
the least from the anonset in transactions that reduce the anonset size.
@ -138,11 +166,6 @@ cryptocoin to ever have this ability. Additionally, the custom <a href="https://
by Hush Developers ensures that no Hush transaction can reduce the size of the anonset. On
Hush mainnet, the size of our anonset can only stay the same, or increase.</p>
<p>Hush developers also believe that the Hush anonset <em>grows faster</em> than the Zcash, Arrow and
potentially the Pirate anonset. Since Hush migrated to a second mainnet about 1.5 years ago,
our statistics have had much less time to grow, compared to Pirate and Zcash mainnets. Our
Shielded Index let’s us study this in real-time.</p>
<h2id="hush-details">Hush details</h2>
<p>When the <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">-zindex</code> CLI argument is enabled, the Shielded Index keeps tracks of many
@ -156,7 +179,7 @@ be retrieved via:</p>
<codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">shielded_pool_size</code> and can be verified as the differece between <codeclass="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">shielded_outputs</code> and
