[dijit]

RE: your question about inherent privacy, there is Monero (XMR) and ZCash which implement transactional privacy in different ways.

In my opinion XMR/Monero are the only implementation to do it all the way through, so it's what I prefer but as with all things, you should research what the differences are and which is better for you. ZCash has a higher value per coin right now and is probably more accepted than XMR/Monero.

[the_stc]

Except no large systems support receiving shielded zcash transactions because of the CPU and RAM involved. They recently made some improvements, but it still takes many seconds of solid CPU time. Maybe in the future it'll be fast enough to be practical and they can make it the default.