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+# Hush Is Better Than Pirate
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+<img src="img/arrr-you-kidding-lift.png">
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+Pirate is a testcoin with a marketing department which is part of the larger "Komodo Ecosystem"
+which has been involved in many many shady ICO's (like launching KMD) projects which are under
+investigation for fraud (like K64).
+
+## Pirate lacks Sietch
+
+Pirate does not have the advanced privacy technology called "Sietch" https://attackingzcash.com
+which makes it much easier for blockchain analysis companies to attack.
+
+## Pirate disabled Duke's privacy features to KMD
+
+Duke Leto wrote code to protect against a specific kind of attack (called a linkability attack)
+and since Pirate and KMD developers (who actually maintain Pirate, who has no dedicated developers)
+don't understand it, they commented it out. Lulz.
+
+## Pirate has no developers
+
+The original developers of Pirate were jl777 and Duke Leto, who gave jl777 the idea for Pirate, by
+asking "What could the opposite of `-ac_public=1` mean" ? The next day, the Pirate testcoin was born.
+
+## Pirate requires a 1.6GB download of junk files
+
+To run a full Pirate node, you must download gigabytes of junk that is required for a disabled part of the code,
+wasting the bandwidth of every single new user.
+
+## Pirate full node takes days to sync
+
+Their full node is so slow to sync that they have built-ing the concept of downloading bootstraps (trusting somebody
+else's blockchain history!) into the full node itself. They truly don't grasp basic blockchain security principles.
+
+## Pirate is based on Sprout
+
+Sprout is a very old version of zaddrs that have been successfully attacked and are additionally extremely slow.
+Pirate based their chain on this old tech, which is why it's so damn slow to sync a Pirate full node and additionally,
+if any Pirate developers existed, they would need to maintain the old Sprout codebase in addition to modern Sapling zaddrs.
+HUSH was the very first cryptocoin to be based solely on Sapling zaddrs.