As Bitcoin and crypto help everyday individuals to regain control over their money and make trusting third parties unnecessary its not surprising that privacy advocates have flocked to the space While bitcoins ledger is openly viewable privacy coins and privacy enhancing protocols are popular ways for value holders to ensure their sensitive financial info stays secure Though a bit of a tricky subject thanks to the nature of privacy itself this post aims to examine just how popular leading privacy coins such as Monero and Zcash and obfuscation protocols like coin mixers really are