ZEC

TrenVantage

dont forget about DASH and ZEC having similar counter runs to the rest of the market.

syKonaut

Because Reddit crypto is not smart in crypto sad to say. Most of these idiots have 0 clue. Privacy coins have been popping off and with $ZEC dev team leaving recently, this propelled XMR to the top of the privacy coin list. It is also the OG. Offloaded a bit of my holdings yesterday, still holding some because chart still looks good.

sarjad

It looks like a rotation from ZEC to XMR to me. From what I saw zcash do, I think it still has a lot of room to run

ProfitableCheetah

Holy moly! I completely missed the XMR pump. Did the ZEC folk capitulate into Monero?

monerobull

That one was purely a gemini funded pump and dump. They bought $60M worth of ZEC to pump it and establish a microstrategy wannabe by rebranding a failed biotech during the gov shutdown (to prevent the SEC from saying anything), then paid a bunch of twitter KOLs to shill it.

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paulwal

Yeah, holding fiat doesn't make much sense unless you're waiting to buy something very soon. The USD inflated like 3% last year. So you're getting -3% APY return. And that's just according to the official numbers. The psychos here will downvote this, but I can't imagine not holding Solana in 2026. Personally I'd put most of it in Solana LST like INF then multiply that on Jupiter by borrowing SOL. You'll end up with a 20-25% yield. So if you put in all $30k you'll have about $47k worth in a couple years. And if Solana hits $500 then you'll have $170k. If you want to stay diversified, I'd do $15k SOL, $12k BTC, $5k ETH, $3k ZEC.

Alexbobica

I can not say anything about profit since ETFs have changed the whole space and market circles. However, I have been mostly focused on long-term investments, but have some short-term ofc- REKT. Among favourite alts there are LINK- solid, fast-growing ecosystem, DIA- also a solid oracle project, AIOZ- decentralized storage, streaming, and AI compute full stack, ZEC- privacy project attracted attention lately, and OCEAN-monetize data without giving up on ownership.

monerobull

Gemini-funded pump and dump. They took a failed biotech and turned it into a zcash microstrategy-wanabe holdings company during the gov shutdown, that way the SEC couldn't say anything, bought a bunch of ZEC with Gemini money and then paid crypto influencers so shill it.

GreedVault

and now the ZEC core dev team has resigned…

final_lionel

Buying BEAM and not buying XMR and ZEC is an insane level of stupidity 🤣

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ThatChrisGuy7

Consider selling ZEC

NilNow

Correct - increased regulations and taxes would not pump Zcash 15x. Nobody sitting on huge amounts of btc or anything else would move into ZEC down 99%, because of proposed laws (laws have been proposed for years) without assurances/ideas of what was going to happen. Yes privacy coins all pumped. XMR was flying higher anyway because it has actual usage and has for years. Sorry if you’re new here and got trapped by this.

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steevo

Here's the CEO tweet saying they were kinda forced out: https://x.com/jswihart/status/2008987228429799621 ZEC has dropped 15% in a day (although to be honest most crytpo fell today) Code/Coin dynamics haven't changed.. Just the team

ExpertLocality

ZEC just got ghosted by its brain trust and the charts look like somebody kicked the ladder. This ain’t a dip buy, it’s more like a survival horror dlc drop for hodlers

ThatChrisGuy7

IMO time to hit that ZEC short while it’s over 410

digital_n01se_

bro talks like ZEC is bitcoin

SameWeekend13

I remember when people were putting LTC down and hyping ZEC (ZCash). Guess now tables have turned.

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DoingItForEli

This is huge news and it's about to get a ton of attention as the day progresses. ZEC is already down almost 20% on the news. I've got a bad feelings it's gonna drag down the rest of the market a bit.

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tldr; Electric Coin Company (ECC), the core development team behind Zcash (ZEC), resigned en masse on January 7 due to governance disputes with the board. ECC’s CEO described the exit as a result of 'constructive discharge,' citing board actions that hindered the team’s ability to fulfill Zcash’s mission. The developers plan to form a new company to continue working on Zcash’s privacy technology. The resignation has caused a governance crisis, raising concerns about the project's future, though the Zcash network remains operational and decentralized. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

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jwz9904

they can sell their ZEC for btc

Aerocryptic

ZEC's dev team juyst resigned. RIP to the chart

Django_McFly

Pain and loss is the only way imo. Near intenting your way into some wrapped ZEC, then bridging to real ZEC, slosh that around a private address or two, send it to a transparent ZEC address, re-brdige, rewrap, then sell for what you actually want. Whatever you rebridge to will be disconnected from the original address. Even more so if you break things up to multiple addresses and bridge out over time so there's no like *124 WZEC came in, 1 min later 124 ZEC went out, 1 min later, 124 ZEC was sent back in*. Honestly though, block chains are transparent.

ComprehensiveBag3439

My tinfoil hat theory: Around October, the government of Venezuela received intelligence saying that the United States was planning an imminent overthrow of their government. Fearing they would watch 600k bitcoins be seized, they went to work converting their Bitcoin off to privacy coins (ZEC etc) to conceal their holdings. This caused a large dump in Bitcoin and a large rise in privacy coins.

CharlieKirkGotBeamed

Banned everywhere. ZEC has ETF Nuff said

Alexbobica

Most of the amount I would put into BTC, and 20% of the amount I would put into ZEC, AIOZ, WILD, and TAO.

cjarguello

All often failed to reach any meaningful goal except XMR and more recently ZEC (all ZCash had to do was enable privacy by defauk). But… you can’t really invest in these projects anymore because governments pressure exchanges to delist them and that leads to much lower on & off-ramps and therefore liquidity. But there will always be a black market and a demand and use case for privacy coins. No other type of altcoin ever solved anything worth solving. All they did was take away a precious trillion away from Bitcoin, the only one which will change the world for the better, go up in price forever, and that’s why everything else is just an “alt-coin”. Alternative to the best (but none of them are second best, and XMR is third at the top).

Fladian7

Well let’s see, other points would be your “Core Risk” and “2018 inflation bug”. Sapling fixed the 2018 vulnerability in Sprout. You can actively track how much ZEC there are in the shielded supply in all 3 pools. Sprout, Sapling, & Orchard and contrast it to the available ZEC in the transparent pool. That sounds pretty auditable to me. Well of course, those are the miners that went and listed their ZEC once it was also available on exchanges to do so. Not to mention exchanges require liquidity of said coin to sell it. Do I need to explain how supply and demand works to you? 1.3 million on the first day is a drop in the bucket compared to all of these pump & dump memes spun off ETH, & SOL. You know as well as I do there are people with such money that scalp and snipe any new listing they see for a quick flip apart from these token creators. Those people will exist no matter what coin you’re talking about. Does it make the technology any less valuable because of malicious actors? No. If that was the case Bitcoin wouldn’t be widely accepted as it is. Bitcoin has been good to me as an early investor, so theres no ill-will against something that made me a lot of money. After being in the crypto-space for years, public transparent ledgers are not attractive for my financial safety. If at any point I transact with someone thats a malicious actor they now have full transaction history of my balance. At least a bank hides my bank statements and transaction history from the public eye and only shares with the government. Now you could argue that I can just constantly create new addresses to send from. But even that’s not going to be feasible for the average user to onboard for OPSEC. And when the time comes that 1 Sat itself is extremely valuable that makes it even less attractive to lose dust shifting addresses just to remain pseudonymous.

jawni

Solana has the best shot IMO. Solana is the only chain doing more volume than Binance and Bybit spot volumes combined on its own token/usd pairing and the efficiency of propAMMs on Solana mean that even with relatively low TVL they have better execution on SOL/USD pairs. https://x.com/kaviish/status/2002601613316513917 More and more assets are becoming available to trade, whether it's other L1 tokens like ZEC, NEAR, XRP, or tokenized stuff like stocks, collectibles, etc. And of course it's already won with memes. I think it's just a matter of time and a matter of getting more assets on chain.

SventuraOscura

The fact that you know the original supply, but CAN'T know all the transactions (apparently, since they can be tracked back), means YES. the bug was abused, since literally there are fake ZEC running on exchanges and being traded DAILY. Basically, Supply is 1000, ok, 1000 in on the pool (But you can't know for sure), 500 exits the pool, (but 1000 are still inside, but you don't know it), Boom. 1500 ZEC total. Easy math, Easy check to do, since isn't privacy shielded at all. It takes 10 Minutes MAX.

SventuraOscura

Just sharing, apparently posting on ZEC subreddit about the fact their "privacy" coin doesn't hide you and you can traced back pretty easily leads to a ban on their subreddit. Joke project. Lmao. https://i.redd.it/y59prh2m8cag1.gif

anymonero

The 2018 inflation bug was unlikely to be exploited because we actually know the supply in the original private pool (sprout). As long as less than 100% leave that pool, there is no indication that the bug was exploited. In the last 7 years only 95% left that pool thus we can be relatively sure no counterfeiting occurred. And if there was it would always be limited to the amount in that pool which today is only 25k ZEC. And yes, you can prove that no inflation ever occured as long as your math is right. Being transparent didn't save Bitcoin from having 3 inflation bugs.

Johnroberts95000

>**No on-chain evidence could ever prove whether it was exploited** False: turnstiles basically make this impossible - [https://z.cash/turnstile-enforcement-against-counterfeiting/](https://z.cash/turnstile-enforcement-against-counterfeiting/) This is something Monero will have to grapple with w FCMP++ (Novel math + a SINGLE pool, where this wouldn't be found) Moving between pools + turnstiles = inflation bug would have been found. Bitcoin not adding privacy was ok when pseudo anonymity was a thing. It's not now. Transparent blockchains are a social attack vector that no money in the history of mankind has had. >Devs have a backdoor in the code False. Zooko's tweet is addressed, but the important part is that open source software is audited by 1,000s of developers. There's a reason every cryptographer trusts Zcash tech. [https://x.com/genzcash/status/1928864885540053005](https://x.com/genzcash/status/1928864885540053005) >Also, let's not forget is down 99% from ATH. If you can pull your IQ above your shoe size for a second, you'll realize that when ZEC launched, the first block was 100 ZEC circulating. That's where the insane prices came from. It wasn't investable until recently. It is \*by far\* the most important project in crypto as cryptographically provable internet native money reshapes society. It is the spiritual successor to bitcoin.

Johnroberts95000

Ah interesting, reddit kept telling me it was deleted. 25% of ZEC under ETFs will make me consider it co-opted as well. 5% is fine. Saylor is a liability with his avg at $75K - \*if\* there winds up being a deep bear from the dread of Saylor coins being dumped or if Wall St bands together to decide the official bitcoin fork deletes Saylor's coins. All treasury companies (including Microstrategy) were retarded. It's just that BTC ETF + Coinbase + Treasuries grew to 25% of the network. A real problem for governance / cypherpunk values.

SventuraOscura

\*sighs\* Don't you ever think why it was listed, if the supply was ONLY of 240/250 ZEC?. with a marketcap of 1.3 million neverthless?. See who backs the coin, See who are the shills. Is just a pump and dump being recycled over and over. Also, other than that, other points why the research is "flawed" ?. Write it up.

Fladian7

I’ll point this one thing out and that’s it, but it’s clear your research is flawed. ZEC hit its “ATH” the DAY IT WAS RELEASED. If you had dug deeper than price action and looked at the market cap relative to circulating supply, you would see its “ATH” of $3,191 on October 28, 2016 was prompted by a circulation of ONLY 240-250 ZEC at that time. with a market cap of $1.3 million. THE DAY IT LAUNCHED. So no it’s not a pump and dump, recently manipulated by big players, maybe time will tell. Just not at the level you’re insinuating.

MaximumStudent1839

Is this a copy and paste from that deleted thread? Wrote the response back there here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1pxzwfv/comment/nwf2c3l/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1pxzwfv/comment/nwf2c3l/?context=3) Instead of getting a reply, OP just capitulated and deleted the thread. > It is functioning as a cypherpunk hedge against bitcoin  It is grasping for every straw that I see. First, they talk shit about crypto getting co-opted by ETFs/DATs. Then Grayscale files one for ZEC, and the twins launch Cyph DAT for ZEC. Then you hear all the blah blah from these advocates on how BTC will crash because Saylor's Strategy mNAV will go below 1 or how ETH will crash because Tom Lee's Bitmine mNAV will go below 1. Then I look at Cyph mNAV already below 1 - can't fathom ppl throwing stones in a glass house. If anyone irl asks me why crypto feels manipulative and deceitful, I will gladly tell them story about ZEC.

BenniBoom707

Not expecting anything, but everything is set up almost exactly like the 2021 run. Bitcoin is hovering around $90k, and random Alts are doing weird shit (cough cough ZEC). My RARI bag just exploded 120% in about 8 hours yesterday, while everything else was red and no new at all. It was a $5 Million Market Cap project going in to yesterday, and the Algos were having a war. Something is definitely cooking behind the scenes and the Whales know it, they just aren’t done accumulating their positions yet

Beneficial_Major9999

ZEC, the most hated coin on cryptocurrency reddit and the ones whales been secretly jumping onto while pumping it all over X among the hate of the “crypto” community Almost guarantees you that in a few years this will be a top 5 coin

verysillyman

ZEC sending while everything else dumps is interesting

MaximumStudent1839

> The viable hedge against bitcoin. This is a great thesis from Messari Its thesis is entirely orthogonal to BTC. BTC is built around a social lindy meme as a SoV. It is hard to co-opt because you need to develop a lindy holder base over time. ZEC's entire thesis is that it's a PoW chain with ZK-proofs for privacy. ZK, homomorphic encryptions, and TEE services practically enable any chain to have privacy for its native assets. Since ZEC isn't private by default, you don't get any advantage from transferring off-ramp from a CEX to your hardware wallet over a smart contract chain with optional privacy. > It is crypto's best bet that AI will make privacy valuable. In that case, you would want to bet on a smart contract platform with private services. >  It's a hedge against Bitcoin's upgrade path in regards to quantum. There is no plan for Satoshi's coins, either these will be dumped on the market or the bitcoin social contract will be broken. ETH will get a quantum upgrade, too. Most top smart contract platforms will do. There is no differentiating angle for ZEC. The reality is, most old chains will have lost keys with non-empty balances. I can bet it is true for ZEC, too. If that is your worry, you should bet on newer chains, not dinos like ZEC. > 8 years of fair distribution There is a HUGE GRAVEYARD of dead old PoW tokens. This is not saying much. Also, CT is now filled with former pumpfun shillers who have recently been converted into ZEC peddlers. The current distribution has changed hands a lot after it pulled 10X+. You have a lot more mercenaries than missionaries holding that token now. >  Zcash founders like Zooko were working on private money before Satoshi. This story is starting to be told by genzcash on X etc. Zcash has moral authority other coins don't have. WTF? That is like desperately grasping for straws now. > Fair PoW distribution is valuable I only agree to the initial distribution. But it doesn't matter much later on. Otherwise, you won't see smart contract platforms overtaking most dead PoW chains you don't even know. The general argument for PoW is, you don't need to be close to big capital to access the token. This is not true as the chain hash scales up with ASIC investments. Generally, PoW with a limited supply faces the security budget issue. Only trading-related app chains like Hyperliquid have proven able to earn enough to pay their validators without inflation. BTC has a chance to overcome this problem because it has a massive institutional backing. > Monero has bad tech and it's been exposed. It is all hearsay from a single incident in Japan, with no concrete evidence. The entire argument against Monero has been that it uses too few dummy accounts. It is still not mathematically clear why it is enough to compromise identity. I am willing to hear concrete mathematical proof on how this can lead to unraveling identities. All this argument about machine learning blah blah can expose Monero blah blah sounds like crypto AI hocus pocus like "Solana discovered AGI via its memecoins". **Give a concrete probabilistic argument with graph theory!** On the other hand, Monero is set to receive an upgrade to increase the number of dummy accounts.

AsparagusDry9000

ZEC is mainly owned by VCs and Team. VCs know how to pump the coin for their profit.

RespectFront1321

Couple of coins have been doing great though like BCH, XMR and ZEC. Why is there this expectations that every frog/dog crap token is going to surely pump or that alt season is bound to happen?

verysillyman

ZEC is back all of a sudden

noviwu97

Plenty of alts pumped a lot at one point in 2024. We got: - Solana season (SOL and memes) - AI season (TAO, FET, NEAR, etc) - Made in US season (XRP, HBAR, ADA, etc) - Privacy season (ZEC, XMR) - ETH season after Tom Lee's buying - Perps season (Hype, Aster) - And many more. There's a season for every type of investors from convservative to degen. You most likely didn't miss them. But you bought too high and refuse to sell even after 4-5x from the bottom. Even ADA quickly went from 0.3 to 1.2.

MaximumStudent1839

I have seen this mNAV fear on Tom Lee and Saylor a lot on CT these days. The fear is they become forced sellers as mNAV goes below one. Maybe it happens or maybe it doesn’t. But what is funny how the same clowns are relentless ZEC bulls. The last time I checked, their DAT (CYPH) mNAV is already below 1… so why aren’t they concerned… 10/10 has done serious damage to a lot of traders. They are now doing bipolar disorder narratives to push PA.

biba8163

> eth... longterm Rookie Mistake. ETH appears to be a big outperformer but it's an underperformer long term that only performs after a massive drop (-92% from ~$1400 to ~$80, $4,000 to $1500 last year, etc) **Top 10 from June 2017 ranked by performance (When Crypto became big caps and Flippening narrative) to Today* | Crypto | Price Change | |--------|--------------| | BTC | ⬆️ +3500% | | XMR | ⬆️ +851% | | ETH | ⬆️ +724% | XRP | ⬆️ +623% | | LTC | ⬆️ +150% | | ZEC | ⬆️ +15% | | ETC | ⬆️ +51% | | NEM | 🔻 -99% | | DASH |🔻 -75% | | IOTA |🔻 -78%

somethingimadeup

$KTA, $$ZEC, $KAS are my big altcoin bets

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Randomized007

Right now there's a lot of lows or near lows for the year on most of them, I sold my ZEC to buy or bulk a lot of it. Had 50 ZEC & 18 each, sold them around 500.

Cryptocaller

That’s why ZEC is approved by the SEC

AutisticGayBear69

Privacy coins are thing. Check out ZCASH (ZEC). ASTER is launching its test net soon to go L1 as a privacy coin. We generally don’t talk about Monero because that’s the first rule. IYKYK

r-salekeen

So as someone with no stakes in ZEC or Monero, should I not be worried about a coin being banned everywhere? You don't find that concerning?

JackyGekko

It's doing well just now, but if you compare it with what happened in the last two cycles, the performance is terrible, especially vs BTC. Even if it's testing its ATH, vs BTC is marking a LH, and eventually a local top in usd terms, unless it will break that weekly downtrend vs the orange coin. So, I would wait a solid breakout before aping in. The same thing is happened to $ZEC few weeks ago when it tested one of the main resistance vs BTC. https://preview.redd.it/eu5k9enavi8g1.png?width=1503&format=png&auto=webp&s=c24e2a2906293d64a6954f9bf14518bcfc525f04

Backrus

Coin with real utility vs coin hijacked by Wall St. Monero is what crypto was supposed to be. And it isn't honeypot like ZEC - it works because it's delisted everywhere, that's all you need to know.

Economy_Appearance72

and ZEC

YogurtCloset3335

I don't see a big problem with it. Hayes gonna Hayes. Guy has been right before. If I am criticizing his calls, it's the Zcash pumping that has been totally ridiculous. That's likely just a gentlemen's agreement with the Winklevii to pump ZEC to oblivion. No underlying fundamentals at all.

FeelessTransfer

ZEC?

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**Top Performers/Survivors from the Summer of the Flippening (2017)** https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20170615/ | Crypto | Price Change | |--------|--------------| | DOGE | ⬆️ +4167.49% | | BTC | ⬆️ +3509.08% | | XMR | ⬆️ +851.05% | | ETH | ⬆️ +721.67% | | XRP | ⬆️ +640.42% | | XLM | ⬆️ +482.15% | | LTC | ⬆️ +159.21% | | ZEC | ⬆️ +3.34% | | ETC | 🔻 -32.61% | | DASH | 🔻 -76.10% |

tornavec

Should've bought ZEC today and retired early. Yeah, right. Like anyone saw this privacy coin pump coming, especially when you can't even trade it everywhere. I couldn't get my hands on it anyway.

Maddinoz

ZEC

biba8163

Crypto bros will at this and double down on their losses on dead shitcoins: - $10 to $200 SOL - $20 to $700 ZEC And ignore this: - 50,000+ cryptos that never recovered their losses and never will

Maddinoz

Look into ZEC further, the privacy narrative is big. ZEC allows to send digital currency privately. The Winklevoss Twins who own the Gemini crypto exchange and who had a significant role in creating Facebook years ago are accumulating 5% of the supply as a digital asset treasury.

toniistheworst

The problem isn't the question if it's gonna rise. It most likely will get a run-up at SOME point. The problem is the opportunity costs of leaving your money in that asset instead of allocating it somewhere else. Let's take that one in a million exception, Zcash, if you mention it already: If you bought in during the corona crash and somehow managed to snipe the exact bottom and sell at the exact top in 2021, you would have made a 20x roughly. Do the same with Bitcoin and you would've made a 16x. Not much of a difference. After that, ZEC dropped 95% (losing almost all of its value) while Bitcoin dropped 77%. So, in the last cycle, you made pretty similar profits while experiencing far more downside and volatility than on Bitcoin. Now, if you zoom out and look at the whole price history of ZEC since it's one of those og dinosaur coins, you will see that this run it pulled off in the last months STILL hasn't even gotten close to its old all time high from 2017/2018. So longer term, this coin has done horrendously bad against Bitcoin so far. To put this into prespective, Bitcoin is up 350% from its 2017 ATH. Zcash may look promising in this cycle, but if you even take one step back you immediately see that the overall picture is telling you exactly the opposite. Is that something you want to put your money in? A coin that's currently down 97% when measured against Bitcoin? You can take that bet of course but so far, you made a lot more money if you just invested your money in Bitcoin. You always have to ask yourself if the altcoin you're investing in will likely outperform bitcoin. If the answer is no, then whats the point? :D

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Maddinoz

U forgot ZEC

Leithm

Coins up YDT have real utility and purpose ZEC/XMR/BCH/Dash What is the point of your favourite coin?

Fabulous-Wasabi-9358

Similar story here. I got into ZEC at the right time and made a tidy profit, only to put it all back in after a few weeks. It had been yoyo-ing in a range for some time but this time, it kept going down. Been a month now and it's just dying a slow death. Down $9k on $13k. Dunno whether to sell or stay put in the hope it will recover in a year or so.

Creative-Frosting189

Thought ZEC looked like a nice swing trade. Bought at 330 on Saturday, sold this morning at 409. Now I have FOMO for what I left on the table 😭🥲

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AxolotlRejunevator

its statistically the safest way lol... You can literally just not short the main ones maybe out of reasons but all others are nowadays just dumpsters. Look at all the ZEC hype, it literally got down more than %50 in a week...

Shelbadier

Hey just gonna check in on my 7 hundred dollar ZEC coins

cdw182

$ZEC

ah-hum

Absolutely. However a ~60% pullback and rejection of the first local ATH as a price floor is a pretty good sign. I'd put it's price floor around $300, tentatively watching this moment to validate that, and I'd put it's true value much closer to Ethereum. I mean, after all this time, DOGE has maintained a high valuation and sits around 20B market cap. Doesn't ZEC have more true value than DOGE?

One-Rock9571

Learn about bitcoin first, and start and focus there! Be smart, most crypto is scammy. Learn learn learn & research before, during, and after purchasing. Certain cryptos offer interesting aspects - ETH, ZEC, SOL - learn about their technologies

Next_Statement6145

What da ZEC doing?

ah-hum

XMR is fully private, yes, but it won't be the transition or available option for regulation reasons. At least ZEC allows the choice, shouldn't matter what the non-private portion does, doesn't affect the private pool.

Enough-Boot32

The coordinated pump theory makes way more sense when you see how XMR stayed steady while ZEC got absolutely rekt

digital__bits

ZEC? Who uses that?

Aanetz

Not everyone in the planet have access to US stocks. For some places with constant hyperinflation, it's better off buying stables or BTC/ETH. Some people who want more privacy & outside the system prefer XMR / ZEC. So, yeah. BTC & Crypto isn't going away. It still serves some niche market.

Django_McFly

ZEC's run up was hyper volatile too. Was nothing to see 25 to 40 % crashes and run ups from one week to the next.

Longjumping-Solid912

ZEC always felt like a solution looking for a problem while XMR just quietly does what it's supposed to do

aprx4

I did warn in this sub that triple top at low 7xx is bad news. You shouldn't be surprised that something pumped 15x in 2 months is in correction course. ZEC made into top 20 and that's important, it is now established alt. Winklevoss purchased $68M, divided into 2 batches. Their purchases were probably the reason that price jumped from double digit all the way to 700. Bigger issue is that Bitcoin possibly entered bear market (if you believe in 4-year cycle), which means that alt likely follow. Honestly, you're likely fail if you hope to get rich quick with this coin. I've been here for several years and still holding. I'm not a tourist.

MaximumStudent1839

> don't think Barron has anything to do with neither Not shit. Many big players are now using X to push coordinated misinformation/FUD campaigns. It is becoming blatantly obvious from the recent ZEC shilling campaign to the recent Monad FUD campaign.

ah-hum

If you like privacy, buy a privacy coin that you think will perform well, like ZEC, XMR, DASH, even LTC and BCH apparently have some kind of privacy features). Or if you want to use smart contracts or Dapps you'll typically need to own the coin of that network to pay the operating gas fees. Then there's XNO which you'll need if you want to transact with zero fees and small amounts, it's way undervalued so price doesn't go much lower lol, but it's the only one that does this Otherwise, basically just investment and speculation because smaller coins are much more volatile and therefore can be a much better short term ROI

MusaRilban

Fuck memes, you need to find the next ZEC. I think privacy is going to run hard. FIRO seems alright but I don't hold any. For a super low cap with a small chance of 10-30x, you need to look at coins like Ergo. Hard to get and never dumps. Perfect combination of things right now for a fucking run

Equal-Shine5837

Yeah… $ZEC

Equal-Shine5837

I think you meant $ZEC

Live-Distribution995

Well, 2-3 months ago ZEC was at $34 and went up to $750... BTC is the safest bet... the rest is a gamble...

Swaponix

I would buy Solana, Bitcoin, ZEC, Dash, and Monero.

MaximumStudent1839

ROFL! ZEC shillers were all over the place about how ETH and BTC were corrupted because they have an ETF and got "took" over by the "institutions", and lost their "cypherpunk ways". I called out their BS and said Grayscale would 100% convert their ZEC trust into an ETF when momentum starts to fade, and they need to keep the hype going. They just downvoted me and ignored what I said. LOL!

VALHALLUGH

Umm…yes. ZEC is the ticker for Zcash

OmgJosh925

Wait a sec they’re obviously hiring bots to pump like ZEC did maybe we should try to ride the wave instead of hate the pump

aprx4

Mixer and coinjoin the old way, still traceable but much harder. Now the most sure and secure way is do cross-chain swapping (e.g. NEAR Intents) into ZEC, then go shielded with ZEC, then swap back to BTC. No need for centralized exchange, this is entirely P2P swapping.