Let me preface this by stating that I don't care what you do with your money, but you're doing it all wrong. If you haven't already, go download or read the AB affidavit/complaint. Go to the last paragraph of page 26 and first line of page 27.
Pretty fucking interesting huh? Now, lets take a look at a couple "odd" sets of circumstances. Shadow Brokers appears, dumps crazy exploits for a bit, then goes dark.
AB, and a bunch of other DNM's become traps. Without knowing what crypto DNM's accept, I can say with all certainty that if it's not Monero, AEON or a shit-fork of those two, you can stop feeling like the feds have no clue what you're buying and I feel like the major crypto, as well as ZEC, could very easily be used in sting operations. I think it's pretty odd that TSB suddenly resurfaced and is demanding ONLY ZEC, which is a sieve.
I say this because the numbers in AB complaint are REEEEALLY fucking specific and because of the stories of all the dealers getting busted afterwards. If you're just a junkie that can't make friends around town, that's cool too, but the point is; if I ever felt like buying shit on a dnm, there's zero chance I'd ever use ZEC, ETH, BTC or, really, anything other than something based on XMR and I can't for the life of me figure out why you guys haven't worked out a system for this??? Like, XMR for macro and AEON for Micro or some shit. Realistically, the main reasons I back these is because the feds have zero fucking clue what to do with it, the devs go to defcon and any dnm worth dealing with should offer both as options for settlement.
That being said, "privacy" is what sparked btc's rise and while AEON's up 400%+, it *should come down to under $1 again on the next BTC dip and even if you're NOT looking to stock up on anonymous crypto, if you buy at a low price, you'll make a shitload of money trading it, OR you'll just buy a shitload more fentanyl or whatever the fuck it is you do. I'm not gonna bother posting a link to the AB complaint. If you can't manage to locate and read one paragraph and one line to see I'm not here to fuck you over, you deserve to continue using pseudo anon coin and being freaked out that the $20 of krokodil you bought is gonna get you locked up or to get your ass detained because you feel the need to show American's how fucking awesome your beard is.
If you have questions about why ZEC and the other "privacy" coins are fucking useless, go to the AEON or Monero subs and ask. Long story short, ZEC implements it as a layer rather than making it anonymous by nature.
Monero all the way