Zcash has a devtax It has a company funded by US and Israel intelligence community. It doesn't get more easy for the state to influence the code Zooko stated he believes they can it make compliant. So privacy for plebs from other plebs, but no privacy for "criminals" vs the state It started with a trusted setup IP's are not protected even for z tx -> can be fixed 90% of all tx are still unshielded Supply is controlled by big funds like DCG Zashi has privacy shortcomings (protocol vs wallet privacy) -> can be fixed It's still listed in CEX which makes it easy to pump and dump (naked short) It scales worse than Monero Zcash has 0 real world adoption outside of speculation by big funds Zcash has some heavy hitters (influencers) close to intelligence community that only ever talk about Zcash over Monero like Snowden or Naval Zcash has a spam problem It has not contributed one bit to P2P markets or adoption Zcash has the same supply curve as BTC lacking tail emission for long term security It plans to move to PoS, which hands even more control to the handlers and arguable doesn't make it good money Just until last week one pool ram 75% of all hashes until the realised that it isn't the best marketing especially if criticng Monero for their 38% miner selfish mining attack, sold as as 51% attack. Since then they split between two pools to make hash centralisation less obvious. This list is largely incomplete. I am not interested in a company run project over grassroots Monero. On the pro side It has contributed a good amount to research It has good privacy for those who know how to use it It has benefited other projects like Ethereum and Monero Competition is good I would definitely use Zcash over Bitcoin. I would use it to cash out where Monero is not available if I ever would need to go back to fiat (unlikely).