ZEC

Professional_Elk_489

Punks are still worth $60K floor and the aliens are still worth millions. Pudgies are still worth $7K floor ZEC and XMR have bullish market structure BTC looks ok Rest of the market looks trash

CounterAdmirable4218

Well ZEC was hailed as instant cash, and it is failing, and is an insider dominated scam. Contrast with LTC. An actual currency which everyone uses and not looking to enrich anyone personally.

FeelsAmazingManGun

ZEC will take over

Saffuran

**BTC** and **ETH** are solid, I have no faith in ADA but you do you. **SOL** is still solid. Outside of those three mostly only dabble smaller positions in **ZEC** (privacycoin), **HYPE** (good growth map and tokenomics), **ONDO** (traditional markets moving into crypto with a potential inevitability of 24/7 stock trading using blockchain -- general RWA exposure.)

New-Armadillo-903

ZEC may be shit, but controlled by whales. Even with a hack, it bounced back.

MakCapital

True, but Kaspa was always a grift and ZEC is one of the few coins with real utility being used. Mainly by criminals but adoption is adoption 🤣 OP Your best shorting opportunities were a year ago. Too dangerous to short any majors peak bear. Back to finding good entries and going long on solid dips. Had forever to short anything you wanted not being used. XRP after meme SEC pump, all L2s anytime, SUl bc got way too high, SOL once it lost $200, ETH near ATH, etc has been free money all the way down. Many majors paid to short majority of time. Risk growing too high now. Especially on anything with users.

Serenaded

ZEC easily. Take a look at Kaspa's chart and apply it to ZEC.

Serenaded

You read the situation correctly imo. Few projects in crypto can ever do 10x in a year and then keep going. They almost always crab at the top and then dump. Kaspa is a good one in recent memory that did exactly this. Whatever people say about ZEC, the fact is that XMR is the undisputed king of darkfi and it's going to be hard to get people to swap since people have relied on XMR for 12 years now. ZEC just has all the hallmarks of a VC pump and dump.

zeroboundss

The same TechLeaks guy who wrote the article in OP highlighting the suspicious February timing of Multicoin building its ZEC position, Kyle Samani leaving Multicoin, and Anthropic completing another funding round with Jane Street and Founder's Fund, has also written extensively about how Monero is traced and how it has been turned into a honeypot by the same people who may have exploited ZEC. For example, David Sacks was a partner in Multicoin Capital and also part of the Paypal Mafia club. I recommend you read this about Monero https://techleaks24.substack.com/p/demystifying-monero-privacy-for-bitcoiners

Chuckychinster

ZEC is just one big money laundering scheme at this point except none of us are in on it so we're at their mercy. Buy Monero if we want private.

Gangaman666

ZEC is trash. Do not trust them. Bookmark this post and comment. We will be proven right. If you are still buying ziocash even after that unlimited mint exploit was found you are an idiot

magicseadog

I have watched a few interviews about but the pool migration basically will answer this question/solve this. Obviously you can't account for dead wallets/lost keys etc but if it doesn't empty out and people are like "I can't get out" then you know is cooked. I am betting it's not, everything is fine and am actually buying a bit. I have been getting increasingly stressed about security and privacy lately and whilst I think near and zec are the point end of the spear on this. ZEC is a very easy sell to people which I think is key for success in crypto.

Slade_Duelyst

ZEC is a big scam, basically they recently forked so their devs could get some block rewards back.

thuishaven

BTC, ETH, SOL, HYPE for majors XMR, ZEC, MORPHO, SKY, RUJI for alts I also recommend 30% of portfolio in market making products like jlp or hlp. 

Puzzled-Rip641

Right because generally speaking investing in crypto won’t make you rich. Because when you invest the chance is you invest in general market terms. You can lie to yourself and say I’m going to pick the ZEC coin every time, but that’s simply not reasonable. What’s going to happen is your returns are going to follow the general market return. If you invested in Bitcoin at the start of this year (the thing most crypto mirrors) you’d be down around 24%. If you did a total market fund you’d be down 40%. If you invested in the SP500 you’d be up 13%.

Big-Finding2976

You could have got 13x if you bought ZEC a year ago. SPY has done 22% in that time. QQQ 28%.

KitchenPreference287

ZEC is a solid pick for privacy. I'm just as interested in how technologies like XLINK approach interoperability in a post quantum world.

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Nice_Slice_3815

Have fun with ZEC and Hyperliquid when the dems win midterms and rules come back

CheekiTits

I've had my good luck. I hope ZEC brings you what bitcoin brought me. I genuinely mean that. 

MakCapital

You can take that one address. Bridge the Bitcoin to Solana. Swap and bridge that BTC into shielded ZEC. Bridge back into Solana in pieces over years to as many addresses as you want. Multiple options remain.

jazz_king_seb

There’s a few coins that have outperformed btc in the last 5 years XRP (dog shit coin) ZEC (privacy) Monero

beanbalance

>Expect the same boost XMR and ZEC got LOL

PeteyPab305

They are not valid use cases to the general public, which is what Bitcoin needs now. Since it is basically a centralized regulated asset, it could not be viewed as having independence through criminal networks. If somebody told you that was the only use case for cash money, otherwise we should just ban it for digital payments. Would you really want to be caught holding cash? Hell no. At some point that doesn't become an argument for it becomes an argument against because there's other networks that do this much better XMR, ZEC etc.

PuzzleheadedBell4057

DCA monthly on the 15th into BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, HYPE, LINK, TAO, ZEC and RENDER $100 ea. Have a round-up on my checking account that I empty monthly to fund Doge - about $20-$30/month.

Electronic_Quote399

Can't ignore eth and sol right now. Im leaning pretty heavy on keeta too, but I've made a lot of money from it this year. I got 7% of my crypto allocated to keeta right now 😬. I'm also closely watching morpho, hyperliquid, and ZEC

yefuck

I sold a huge chunk of my ZEC position to afford my current house. But ZEC was pumped up at ATH’s it felt like the right time and low opportunity cost. Selling Bitcoin at $60,000 or ETH under $2,000. No way in hell …

piggleii

One of the guys from Bankless dumped his ETH to buy ZEC.

piggleii

All eyes are on it for whatever reason. Many former ETH maxis dumped their ETH bags to go all in on ZEC. Personally, I think about as many people care about "privacy" as they do about "decentralization".

yefuck

Literally the answer is ZEC.

Street_Regret4476

I think ZEC could still surprise the market. There are some very big players behind it who could easily bring a lot of attention, and the price would likely react. That said, I've never held any myself. It's just too unpredictable -\_-

Alexpromise1

Changenow>FixedFloat>Threshold>StealthX>sideshift>HoudiniSwap avoid roads, take bridges curvefinance pools and some activity on pumpfun wouldn’t hurt either … or you can just use monero or swap to ZEC and go on with your life idk

Efficient_Ice_1001

The question isn't who is selling, the question is who is buying when crypto returns look like this and a safe boring boomer S&P 500 index is returning 164% from early 2018 and 65% from late 2021? LTC is -18 from December 2013 XRP is -55% from December 2017 ADA is -80% from December 2017 ZEC is -45% from January 2018 XMR is -20% from January 2018 ETH is -18% from January 2018 when accounting for inflation LINK is -60% from 2020 SOL is -70% from 2021 price BNB is -20% from 2021 price Even BTC is -13% from 2021 high

Forevererer

Absolutely sacrificing. Be wary of “crypto”. After a bunch of years I only allocate to BTC (98%) and ZEC (2%) and this point.

LTP-N

Doesn't matter what you think either. All crypto is useless and we're all out here gambling, get off your high horse, you don't know any more or less than the rest of us. Before you cry and reply saying I'm salty because I obviously hold alt coins, correct, but my gamblings are 50% BTC, 30% ETH, 10% XTZ and 10% ZEC.

Bazaruta

There are. ETH is useful for smart contracts. ZEC and XMR provide privacy on transactions. HYPE is kinda like a stock, like binance and coinbase stock. Just to name a few. But true for the average coin, there is none…yet people throw money at it. When a 5 min google search would tell you that, the thing you are paying for is worthless.

Bazaruta

There are good alts, ETH, TAO, HYPE are good. ZEC kinda is too. But I agree. Most are trash, if people researched a bit before throwing money at it, they would so much better!

Bazaruta

There are good alts, ETH, TAO, HYPE are good. ZEC kinda is too. But I agree. Most are trash, if people researched a bit before throwing money at it, they would so much better!

corpski

We're in a fine place. I'm actually very unattached to the market now and would be looking very much forward to more large market drawdowns. Objectively, this so-called "bear market" has been very mild compared to cycles past. I'm not into Ondo but if you really have a good reason to believe it's going to do extremely well, you should DCA. Been here for a decade. This is not the place to tell people that you're into Solana -- people are too clueless. I said this years ago but nothing has changed here pretty much: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1gamlcy/comment/ltn0jki/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1gamlcy/comment/ltn0jki/) Luck is certainly a thing, but your alpha is on crypto twitter and that hasn't changed. Keep buying with every agonizing low and sell at every new breaking high. I never trade on leverage. Long-drawn cycles are my bread and butter, and I sit on my ass for months or years. But you need to get the narratives right, and this place has always had a terrible track record for that. So many commenters lack the necessary information and are too emotional, hold silly, outdated, or uninformed biases, or end up holding coins that simply have no chance to ever pump reasonably again. Also, I have no plans of ever truly exiting the market. I've made my peace with that. I have no ability to catch the highest highs or the lowest of lows. The only thing I can manage reasonably is risk. Most important of all, you need ammo. If you can't buy the dip, it'll make things exponentially harder. Make sure to do everything you can to never put yourself in that situation. Manage risks, don't stake or lend out all your stables. The biggest purpose of your stablecoins is to buy cheap coins, not to earn 3-5% per annum. With every monstrous dip, the potential for return becomes so much bigger. Always do your best to be aware of what's happening in the market and which assets actually have the biggest hype, narratives, and promise. Time lines are never always exactly the same for each coin. The narratives change every cycle. It's not that hard to know what's up if you try. Above everything else, stay objective and never be a maxi. For example, there are some truly old coins in the top 10 that I feel don't deserve to be there, and only pump because of certain reasons. I will never turn down an opportunity to make a good long-term trade off that. Since I'm a horrible daytrader, I make it up by setting solid rules, apart from setting rigid buy and sell points. I set a datum point for each coin and sell 20% of all held coins at every 25% price increase, and buy a calculated portion back with every 30-40% drawdown -- subject to the coin's MC, available liquidity, and perceived volatility. Assets that have made me the most in the last few months: HYPE (now the biggest portion of my porfolio, though I didn't intend for it to be), ZEC, BP (thanks entirely to CT). My preference is to buy with growing USD size every time the price dips further into the abyss. I do have a cut-off, where the buying simply stops, and if the price ever gets there, one would have to think - WTF happened to make it actually go that low. The 20-100x's were already made. I'd be happy with doing much less in the future. My YOLO days were back in the previous decade. There's no place for that now, and hopefully ever in the future. If an asset fails the CT narrative and consistently fails to produce results in a reasonably expected time frame when it's supposed to pump along with other assets, it may be time to consider dropping that one.

shaunj72143

I forgot about ZEC had spent one of my stimulus checks on investing in it, was just starting to explore privacy coins....forgot about it til my phone and laptop starting blowing tf up with alerts to an account that I had on the back burner so long I forgot it existed. I'm retiring after next tax season at 48. (Not even going to mention how much I made off SOL). Point being, don't judge a fledgling industry not even a whole two decades in. This would be like turning your back on Ford stocks in the 30s.

shaunj72143

Hang on to the ZEC. Glad I did.

SheKnows9797

Honestly your current approach already sounds closer to “responsible long-term allocation” than most people in crypto. The main thing I’d be careful about is changing it just for “tidying it up” rather than because your thesis on any of those assets has changed. A few thoughts: * BTC heavy + ETH + some privacy exposure (XMR/ZEC) already gives you diversification across different narratives * SOL/BNB are more ecosystem / platform bets, so swapping into them is less about simplification and more about shifting conviction * “Set and forget” only works if you’re actually comfortable holding through full cycles without reacting to short-term sentiment If anything, the bigger question is not “should I condense” but “do I still believe each of these has a reason to exist in my portfolio 5–10 years from now?” If yes, there’s not a strong need to optimize it further.

jwz9904

ZEC is the real king

Da_WooDr

Siacoin, Holochain, Amp, XRP, XLM, LTC, Dash, BCH, ZEC, VeChain, Mana, ICP, XDC, Algo, Link, FileCoin, XMR,

financeguruIB

$ZEC will lead the bull market

Aromatic-Ad7987

Hbar, Link,XLM,ZEC,

BookOfKingsOfKings

I’m no pro and haven’t held either but Ive heard sketchy things about ZEC, whereas XMR seems to have an airtight record; also privacy optional vs privacy mandated, by default (respectively)

BookOfKingsOfKings

Thoughts on XMR? Any particular reason you hold ZEC over XMR?

financeguruIB

Now we’re talking. $ZEC $TAO $SOL😎

Intelligent_Net_2786

My other bags: BTC, Eth, LInk, Sol, Hype, XLM, ZEC, Tao

financeguruIB

I’m intrigued by $BCH. I will look into it. $ZEC is one of my bags. Also considering $XMR

financeguruIB

Privacy is a big selling point for sure. Imagine it’s a 6B mcap and no exchange carries it. With the rise of AI inching closer and closer, we need privacy more than ever. I hold ZEC but i might also start accumulating XMR

Distinct-Presence52

Because ZEC is not private. Thats why they used XMR. Because it is everything people say ZEC is but without the lies.

unknowngloomth

The crypto has shifted a lot. You have to be a mercenary in this space. Either that, or you will wind up becoming a bagholders and the exit liquidity for insiders, early buyers and VCs. Finding gem is extremely hard. Crypto makes no sense. Take ZEC for instance. It was dead for years. Some enterprise came along and adopted ZEC. It was rekindled. Obviously it is still massively down from its ATH.

Serenaded

How's that little infinite minting glitch on ZEC going broski?

ZenOasisNZ

"*Zcash price crashed more than 45*% after researchers disclosed a bug that could have allowed unlimited counterfeit ZEC" ZEC is an Epstein Mossad Ponzi Scheme btw

Serenaded

Of all the things to buy right now, ZEC is probably the absolute worst thing. It's not just because of the exploit, it's almost specifically because it's pumped 20x this year. I bought Kaspa right before last cycle began as it had been pumping through the bear, then when the bull started Kaspa crabbed the entire time while everything else pumped, and then fell off a cliff when the 2025 bear began. This is your future OP.

NovastaKai

You've missed massive booms. Do these tools just hold and hold...never to use the timing element of the market or what? 🤣 i set a 2x 5x 10x reminder and take 20-30% at each interval at LEAST. Its valled damage limitation and actually securing a profit.. Siren went from 0.04 to like 4.5 in the recent months 🤣🤣 with the millions in daily vol there is plenty to be made all the time.. people are just.. people :,) ZEC!? MXR.. Even XLM went up recently about 50% 😅 idk.. if i had enough to sit back and chill i might have left it ling term but it is foolish to expect something from time alone. Attention is value*

ModernCYPH3R

Here's the simple truth: because Zcash Orchard is a private shielded pool, it's literally impossible to prove if the bug was exploited or not. The bug let someone bypass validation to mint unlimited fake ZEC inside the pool. Yes, the hard fork patched it, and yes, developers say there's no evidence of an exploit. But because the pool is a black box, any counterfeit coins made inside stay 100% invisible. Unless developers force a migration through a new audited pool, anyone claiming they're sure nothing was minted is just coping.

Educational_Cable405

The part people skip over: nobody can actually see inside the shielded pool, not even the Zcash devs. The only real check is the turnstile between transparent and shielded addresses. If someone minted fake ZEC and ever cashed it out, more value would leave the pool than went in, and that would be visible on chain. So far it hasn't happened, and that's what 'no evidence' actually rests on, not some line by line audit.

Vegetable-Advance982

They mean altcoins because by crypto being over they mean 'the trading atmosphere we've been playing around in may never come back'. Hyperliquid broke through ATHs lately. VVV, nice chart. ZEC was doing well, may or may not recover from the recent exploit. 'Crypto' is ending, and it is simply becoming 'companies that have an actual product and deliver revenue to it's token' and 'everything else'. The first group has very very few tokens. The second has been going through big waves, but now that crypto isn't the only place for degens to gamble their hearts out and get 1000x, it may never come back. That's what the guy means by 'crypto is dead'.

capnwally14

positive jobs numbers is the bearish news btw if fed isnt choosing between labor and inflation, they're more likely to respond to inflation (i.e. hikes) also there are a few other things going on: \- ZEC supply bug discovered from a generic prompt out of opus doesnt bode well for security \- Energy prices stlil super high - bad for bitcoin, which drags other majors down \- Quantum risk is ticking up (new estimates are teams need to be ready by 2029) \- .. and add in the liquidity suck of massive IPOs (SpaceX / Anthropic / OpenAI) plus major financing deals (e.g. Google's preferred offering) and ai supply chain stocks ripping

cryptolipto

Seems like everyone is focused on ZEC right now ?

yode8

I see what you’re saying. That’s true of all assets. But in the case of ZEC the long term sentiment ‘trend’ will likely never fully recover from this. You said an asset is worth what the people holding it think it’s worth, but surely there’s an aspect which the people who are not holding it can affect its value by perception or sentiment. Also I agree about the 90% thing, many top coins are down by nearly that much. But as long as they’re not trending towards zero they’re not dead

LargeSnorlax

It did go down significantly, it's down 40% today. It also had a huge run up before that, but I'm making a decent point too - The asset is literally worth what people holding it think its worth. Litecoin for example has an extremely low sentiment so it's down 90%, and now ZEC has extremely low sentiment so it's down 90%. Neither of them have any real reason to be any price other than hype for the asset (of which there is little for either) or high sentiment (lacking there too) so the prices being an equal amount down from the highs sounds about right. Weirdly, -90% from high in a bear is probably not even that bad. There's a bunch of things (Like DASH) that are 98%+.

vmarchese

Depends what you mean by pump and dump.  Did some market participants (i.e. influencers) pump ZEC, then dump their holdings to exploit this headline for profit? Absolutely! Does this have anything to do with the project maintainers or early participants? Absolutely not. This is not a classic rug pull. The only material effect this event produces is to enhance security over the long-term.

MrWonderfulPoop

I was wondering what this was about and see ZEC crapped the bed by \~42% in 24 hours. But it's not a rug pull.

TheDookieboi

All of those are valued in dollars. Not XMR. Not ZEC. If you’re looking to make purchases of those things you need dollars.

beanbalance

>obvious for everyone from the start wat? these is literally tens of millions of people who are just BTC maxis who still believe that BTc is the shit. Then there are ETH believers, ZEC, solana,... and then there are gazillion of all the shitcoin holders who though crypto is more than pump and dump. maybe YOU were among those few who knew it was "obvious from the start" but then what are you doing on this sub then?

Kandiru

DCR has the same privacy benefits as ZEC while still being auditable to protect against secret supply inflation. It does have a 10% dev subsidy, but that's controlled by PoS voters so it's spent on things to benefit everyone. There is a Dex to allow trustless atomic swaps across chains so you can swap in and out to BTC or Eth without needing to trust an exchange.

Aerocryptic

What were you doing with your life when you could have just printed an infinity of ZEC?

holiquetal

ZEC is going full LUNA. There is no way to prove there was no minting. It's going straight to 0.

CounterAdmirable4218

The winner of the privacy coin battle won’t be ZEC. Nor will it be XMR. It will be Litecoin with optional privacy.

Hannahshear

ZEC is a project developed by Israeli secret services, DYOR guys

ALth0r

Eveything is getting killed because if AI could find an exploit in ZEC code, who knows if it wont for others ?

verysillyman

ZEC the Z is for zerooo

oopssomething

ZEC -50% in a day, but TRUMP is the obvious rugpull right?

Serenaded

Hence why I just sold ZEC 3 days ago for XMR. XMR is clearly the only one in use for its usecase. ZEC's run is exhausted.

ThereIsNoGovernance

ZEC privacy is unfortunately compromised: almost all swaps/cex insist on transparent (unsheilded) transactions. It's the wannabe privacy coin that normies think is 'safer' than monero. If you want liquidity and real privacy, monero has been providing it without fail for well over a decade.

pooperdooper

It needs to go to zero. It's possible there are trillions of ZEC that were minted with this exploit. Even the researcher could have done it secretly. Nobody would know.

Serenaded

\>A bug was discovered that had been dormant for years and could in theory allow someone to mint ZEC in the shielded pool Literally everyone was saying this when it was pumping that it's shady AF and has backdoors. XMR was always the only one. ZEC is for the greedy and foolish. All these bagholders deserve it. This basically officially means XMR won the head to head. ZEC might be dumping now, XMR is going to pump out of this as it's now the undisputed king of darkfi.

akuukka

There's no way to tell if the bug has been exploited or not. If I had infinite amount of ZEC and nobody knew about it, I would only sellso much that no one would notice.

the_rodent_incident

Zoom out. ZEC isn't dumping because of some exploit. It's because it pumped like 3x in a few weeks, without being actually used as money anywhere. Basically pump & dump.

necropuddi

BTC is down like 3%, most alts are down like 5-10%, ZEC's -32% surely is just due to BTC. Makes sense.

PonkeSolWhalePro

ZEC non ha fondamenta vere come XMR

0fWhomIAmChief

Damn, Ai's wrecking ZEC? So much for being an actual contender with XMR 

Large-Cow9765

Yeah, but have you seen ZEC?

tj78492

Cardano dumping and Charles taking a break, SOL in the dumps, Bankless selling ETH, Saylor selling BTC, ZEC exploited... this is a shit show

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5553331117

$ZEC 😂 😂  King grifter gonna grift, dude should have stayed in prison.

Prior_Parsley3960

**Summary:** Zcash executed an emergency network upgrade after developers found a critical vulnerability in its main privacy system (the Orchard shielded pool). The flaw was caught before any known exploitation. **Why it matters:** * Orchard is Zcash's primary privacy layer and holds billions of dollars worth of ZEC. * Developers considered the issue serious enough to temporarily halt Orchard transactions network-wide. * Funds and privacy protections were not compromised, according to the Zcash team. **What happened:** * An emergency soft fork was activated on June 2. * Miners were instructed to stop processing Orchard transactions until a fix was deployed. * The transition caused some temporary chain instability and orphaned blocks, but the network remained operational. **Impact on users:** * Funds are reportedly safe. * ZEC trading on exchanges continued normally. * Wallets that rely on Orchard (including Cake Wallet) temporarily lost ZEC transaction functionality. **Bigger picture:** * This is the latest in a series of major Zcash security patches during 2026. * Critics argue that maintaining two separate node implementations has increased complexity and created recurring consensus risks. * The incident comes while Zcash is experiencing a major resurgence, with ETF speculation, institutional interest, and a strong price rally. **Bottom line:** No funds were stolen, but a serious vulnerability was found in the heart of Zcash's privacy infrastructure. The rapid emergency response appears to have prevented a potentially much more damaging security incident.

kironet996

u still buying CRO and ZEC?

Serenaded

It's funny af how basically the entire internet agrees that XMR is the way to go and no one is ever going to use ZEC for its actual usecase as long as XMR exists.

Django_McFly

the actual news story is that a critical exploit was found in the part of the protocol where those tokens were so they did a soft fork rather than let the chain get exploited for 85% of all private ZEC. Actual article title: > Zcash Executes Emergency Fork After Critical Orchard Vulnerability Discovery > Zcash halted Orchard transactions holding over 4.5 million ZEC in an emergency fork, while the $9.8 billion network continued operating and ZEC traded near $587.

GlitteringBelt4287

Market is worried about quantum computing cracking SHA-256 Bitcoin suffered while ZEC benefited

Adventurous-Status38

FUD all you want. ZEC is making holders rich and XMR holders poor lol

Normal-Spell5339

That’s a silly take. If they were backdooring it they wouldn’t do a press release about it. All this means is making it so that you can show the origins of funds if you want, just like you can with XMR, they ship that feature with the core wallet to “prove”transactions if you choose to. It’s the same functionality in both XMR and ZEC. Google moonlight research if you want to see devs corrupting the privacy of XMR.

Normal-Spell5339

If you transact in XMR it is transparent at the ends. The entity sending you XMR knows where it went and the receiver knows where they received it from. If you buy it from Kraken or a swap site they know X address bought Y amount. Similarly wherever it’s offloaded knows the address sending to it and the transaction it’s involved in and the amount. But if the amounts aren’t exactly the same and you make use of the shielded pool at some point you have anonymity. With the coming CARROT upgrade there will be transparent pools in XMR just like ZEC. This facilitates defi swaps like actual ones not the jankey ass Haveno stuff. That’s the main use of transparent pools in ZEC, for DeFi. That’s probs why its price has been going crazy, it’s like XMR but easier to obtain. You don’t have to find an exchange that lists it you can just bridge to it.

Normal-Spell5339

What back door? Won’t it be on the same level of privacy once they implement CARROT in XMR? Transparent and non transparent pools so you can have anonymity AND bridge-Ability? And XMR will catch up in terms of privacy and be on equal footing with the ZEC once they implement FCMP++. You’ll upgrade from rings to the entire chain is your privacy ring. A lot of people have not really researched these things before forming an opinion

Saffuran

So when audits uncover an exploit you would prefer ZEC keep running so that it can be exploited than momentarily pausing transactions, patching the exploit as soon as it is discovered before it can be exploited, and then resuming activity?