ZCash is up there as well

Zcash is most certainly not private. Just one recent aspect of that: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7hnw08/turn...

Zcash needs to fix 1. Trusted setup issue and 2. Make it possible to debug money supply.

Otherwise, zksnarks has very good potential overall.

Yes, one may adjust the N in "current top N" to include anything. In reality it is just BTC and ETH.

Let me rephrase: monero is the top privacy currency. End of story, until another stronger coin comes in.

When i say top, i dont care about marketcaps. Any coin is just couple hundred million tethers away from being the top coin.

Bitcoin is overhyped and not useful for anything at the moment, and far from its original purpose. IF you knew anything about monero, you'd see why it is actually more useful and true to crypto-currency spirit than others.

Except that people who actually understand cryptocurrencies tend to think Eth is largely hooey and definitely dangerous and that it won't be around for long. At least not in its current form. By the way, the same people tend to think Monero is in the top 2. But you can change the definition of "top" or "quality" to include anything. But in reality I'm sure most people don't actually care. :)

Why is ETH hooey? I haven't heard that before.

That's nonsense, to the point of being blatant misinformation. Ethereum processes more transactions than all other cryptocurrencies combined. It has 30X more developers working on it than the next most active platform. The market cap of crypto-assets issued on top of it (ERC20 tokens) grew from $2.8 billion to $60 billion over the last 7 months, with Ethereum's market share for the crypo-asset market growing from 73% to 93% over that period.

One may adjust the 'centralised' in "decentralised" to include anything. In reality it is just BTC.