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Pirate P2P layer is plaintext and leaks metadata to the ISP and all middlemen on the internet path. Hush nodes only use encrypted TLS 1.3 connections.
## Pirate is old unmaintained Duke code
Duke Leto wrote large portions of PirateCoin while a Komodo Core developer for about two years, and now it's unmaintained because there is nobody left that understands it. Additionally, KMD developers
consider PirateCoin a seperate project, and routinely make decisions that hurt the privacy of PirateCoin users.
## Pirate lacks Sietch
Pirate does not have the advanced privacy technology called "Sietch" https://attackingzcash.com
