I wonder if privacy coins will finally catch on this cycle. Now that consumer apps like interface are making financial txns more obviously public and passively followable for regular people. (The information was always available for those who wanted to find it but most don’t care enough to do more than follow a feed)

One of the most surprising cryptocurrency “outcomes” since I got into crypto in 2017 is that Zcash didn’t catch on a la Top 10 coin. “Bitcoin but private” always seemed obviously useful and valuable to me, but the market has begged to differ.

Quotes on “outcomes” because the story might not be over yet.

What would be the advantage of privacy coins vs privacy services a la Tornado Cash (sanctions aside)? I don't have strong priors on which I would prefer to use.