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>the coins that come closest are Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Dash.

How come the XRPLedger isn't on your radar? It was build before these other coins existed with the primary goal to be a better bitcoin so it can actually have the properties that p2p cash needs. Like low block time, low fees and high throughput. Its ofc not a fork because forking can not change the fundamental flaws that limits bitcoin. Unfortunately Satoshi was completely wrong on almost everything related to scaling the network.

"The existing Visa credit card network processes about 15 million Internet purchases per day worldwide. Bitcoin can already scale much larger than that with existing hardware for a fraction of the cost. It never really hits a scale ceiling."