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XELIS just dropped this comparison chart and... damn, it kinda cooks the competition? Privacy + BlockDAG + Smart Contracts in PoW. Thoughts?

Yo everyone,Been lurking in privacy coin spaces for a while (Monero maxi at heart, but open-minded), and stumbled on this chart the XELIS team/community put out. It's positioning XELIS as basically the "if Monero, Kaspa, and Ethereum had a baby" coin.Quick rundown from the pic:Launched 2024 (fair launch, no premine/VCs like Monero/BTC)
Native zk-proofs + homomorphic encryption for confidential balances/transactions (not full anon like XMR, but hidden amounts without needing shields/opt-in like Zcash)
BlockDAG structure → 5s blocks, high throughput, no orphans basically
Smart contracts natively on L1 (their own Rust-like lang called Silex)
PoW with burns/deflation, GPU/CPU friendly mining
Confidential native tokens, privacy with some transparency option

Compared to:Monero: full anon but no smart contracts, slower blocks
Zcash: optional privacy (strong when shielded), but no contracts, ASIC-heavy
ETH/Solana: fast/contracts but zero default privacy
BTC: OG but slow/no privacy/no contracts

The chart gives XELIS green checks on almost everything while X-ing the big boys on privacy/scalability combos. Obviously biased (it's their chart lol), but a lot of the tech claims check out from their docs/GitHub: BlockDAG + HE privacy + programmable without sacrificing PoW decentralization.XELIS is still tiny (~$3-4M cap last I checked), super young mainnet (2024), so high risk/high reward vibes. But if it scales without imploding and privacy actually holds up under real attacks... could be interesting.Anyone mining this? Holding? Or is it just another hyped L1 that won't survive? Curious if the BlockDAG + privacy actually delivers better than Kaspa + Monero separately.Pic attached for the full chart.What do you think—legit contender or marketing fluff?

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