ZEC

AutomaticOne7

Why does QNT price action behave exactly the same as when ZEC was trading at 200 -300? Both have limited supply, QNT even less 14m. I dont know man, i wanted to buy ZEC at 250 but didnt, just went ahead and bought some QNT just in case it will do a similar rise. People said ZEC will go to couple k also people say QNT will do couple k. Oh well we will see, either i lose it all or make bank

Awkward_Potential_

I mean, BTC. But I'll trade other shit for cycles. Right now ZEC is the trade.

MrBurtSpaghetti

Btc is slow, public, expensive, nobody works on it, it can't scale and has a mystery dev hoarding 5% of the float. The moat for btc is wall st, who's chasing the next thing already. Tom with ETH, Winks with ZEC, Lee with LTC DATS and grayscale converting the ALT trusts to ETF. If it's alt season then ltc is in the right spot imho.

MrBurtSpaghetti

Crypto, oil, PMs, they're all just tickers to trade when it's advantageous, nobody riding ZEC is complaining. I'll trade dogshit if it made money, I did with NKLA.

SeriousGains

Most hate I’ve received on this sub: buying TRON at $0.04 and shorting ZEC at $1550.

duc_one

Here is my AI answer: Algorand suffers primarily from heavy historical token supply inflation and a lack of aggressive supply-sink mechanisms to absorb selling pressure. While its tech is top-tier, retail capital in this market favors high-hype narratives—like NEAR's AI integration or ZEC's privacy tailwinds—over slow-moving enterprise deals. Because transaction fees are near-zero, the base layer captures very little economic value to drive organic token demand

Ratatatco

ZEC is trash

SeriousGains

Hopefully you shorted ZEC. A long way to fall from here.

Orin_n

I need ZEC to get the memo and catch up

PuzzleheadedBell4057

I own ZEC too.

jwz9904

ZEC holders started btc?

Jazzlike-Term-8940

I’m still a big fan of ZEC ngl

SeriousGains

Shorting ZEC was the most obvious trade I’ve seen in years.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

Holy crap. All the posts "if you're not buying ZEC, you must hate money" was a classic top signal. Congrats to people who shorted.

polyamerica

SOL, TAO, ZEC, NEAR, ENA, HYPE, and CC. Trust me bro……

Temporary-Cause730

Depends if you want higher returns with more risk, or a "safe" play. ZEC for higher upside, HYPE for a safer investment. 

SeriousGains

ZEC I need more short entries.

Lazy-Effect4222

Neither ZEC nor Night are comparable to Monero.

aaj094

ZEC: some folks making money but setting up other fools for bigger losses

martianfrog

Mostly ZEC, that's worked out ok so far.

Anxious_Subject_2604

I doubt this is it for QNT. If ZEC is any indication whenever one of these projects gets real world adoption and traction they're in on a solo ride up and up for many weeks to come. Not too late to dabble. The overall market is still not yet in full buy-mode.

dammmmmlee686

not a single person has mentioned ZEC that has been melting faces for the last 12 months?

Right_Strength2170

NEAR, ENA, ZEC and UNI pump endlessly day after day

Awkward_Potential_

Can you give me a source for that, boss?  Shielded ZEC is private. That's the point of the shielding. 

Backrus

Performance this year vs benchmarks (BTC and MSTR); performance since we started bull on August 24 (close above weekly ema50), whales' positioning, ETFs flows, and narrative simple enough that even average redditor can understand it (ZEC is privacy, although honeypot lol, but number goes up, but just use Monero, HYPE is basically better CBOE/RH, although for options there's DRV, LIT is the same so it's diversification, NEAR has been he best out of AI plays). Then again, alts shouldn't be more than 5% of your overall stock portfolio. Disclaimer: I've had those since 2025, so my cost basis is infinitely small. Still, every cycle worked like that - early winners just kept running and winning even more.

Backrus

Honestly, no point for quite some time. First of all, there's no such thing as "investing" in crypto - to invest in something, it has to have fundamental value. Tokens created in 15s (yes, it takes that long) don't have any fundamental value. You can argue BTC has some, but still, you're gambling on price appreciation without any logical reason. When IBIT options launched, BTC lost its ability to generate upside volatility (in January GVZ flipped BVIV, and BVIV chart alone is just sad). Without that, it's just another stock with market like returns and much bigger downside risk. So it's hard to find honest argument to have it in your portofolio on a risk-adjusted basis. Then again, if you have to hold something, do it with BTC - there are periods when it decorrelates from stocks (but over last 3 years it decorrelated from the upside lol). Since COVID dump / post 2021, stocks have better volatility, and better risk-adjusted returns (BTC has been the worst performing asset in the world on an absolute and risk-adjusted basis since IBIT options launched on November 19, 2024; although it might change with the start of new bull market on August 24). Not to mention all the investor protections in the world. If you still wanna gamba, this cycle has already decided its winners: HYPE, LIT, ZEC, NEAR.

Awkward_Potential_

I do think it will get a secondary pump as ZEC continues to blast off. But it's clearly not the trade for this cycle. 

Decent-Treat-3298

**Grayscale ZCSH:** \~645K ZEC **Cypherpunk treasury:** \~323K ZEC That's already roughly **968,000 ZEC**, or around **5.7% of circulating supply**, represented by just those two institutional structures. But here's the fascinating thing for your thesis: **They've recently been accumulating rather than dumping. But I guess its your opinion that WELL YA ,BUT THIS IS THE BI RUGPULL SET UP!** I'd actually add **ZCSH's ZEC holdings** to the things we're monitoring alongside network hashrate. If that 645K starts falling materially, *that* would be a much more concrete warning sign than somebody on Reddit saying Barry and the twins are about to dump.

jwz9904

omg ZEC too

Upset_Ad_6099

I believe that these jumps in the currency’s value are the result of investments by shady Russian figures and Russian millionaires who, fearing further manipulation linked to Putin, are trying to get their money out of the old Tsarist sphere. Otherwise, there wouldn’t really be a reason for it to “boom” so dramatically, as they claim. And yes, I also think this post is actually an ad for ZEC. Who posted it? The OP? It seems like they’re basically advertising the coin.

Demodras777

ZEC's optional privacy is tiers better than LTCs haphazard privacy tech.

faisal_yk26

I'd flip it. This doesn't make Zcash a threat to Bitcoin, it makes Bitcoin a threat to Zcash's main selling point. It's still just a paper though. No way to move BTC in or out yet, no launch date, and Bitcoin itself doesn't verify the private transfers. Big validation for Zcash's tech, but if BTC ever gets working privacy, the reason to hold ZEC shrinks.

yesyasmin

MINA, HYPE, and holding ZEC since it was an infant

Independent_Buffalo

Don't we already hace ZEC?

UnderpaidBIGtime

End of ZEC

--Ivxry--

From my observation it seem to value privacy a lot. I noticed ZEC went from 200 in February to $1.5k as of date. VVV, which is an ai service that focuses on privacy went from $6 i believe to $30 as of date. I found a coin called DASH focusing on privacy and I think it has a pretty good chance, so in stacking that. I’m just a beginner, since February just wanted to put my take in

Awkward_Potential_

Exactly. I'll just make sure I sell relatively early. BTC hasn't even made highs yet. VCs are saying ZEC to $10k. I can definitely get out before that. 

jawni

>ZEC is government / Israeli backdoored privacy tech Can you explain how that affects the performance of the network?

GreemBeam

ZEC is government / Israeli backdoored privacy tech, shouldn't be considered an actual privacy coin for using as digital private cash.

Muffin_Cool

I saw a stat that says ZEC only has 8000 transactions a day

DeadPhish-710

I've held Litecoin for a long time and am definitely jealous of the ZEC pump. I'm hoping it could do the same but I also wouldn't be shocked if it drops back down again. I have been burnt too many times by this coin to really believe this is really it this time.

SeriousGains

I appreciate the extensive and thoughtful reply. I generally don’t trade at all anymore. Haven’t shorted anything since ETH in 2017. Reformed gambler turned long term buy and holder. But when a set up so obvious comes along then you add derivatives to your account and learn how they work. Probably bought my ZEC around $30-50. I was being slightly ironic saying it’s a revenge trade. ZEC will fall, whether it’s here or at 3.5k, I don’t really care. I’m only shorting it with less than 0.3% of my account. Plenty of room to add to the trade. Nothing goes 100x straight up. And it literally would have to in order to cause a problem. Patience pays, and the funding rate is positive.

DanielTheTechie

>There’s no way it doesn’t retrace these levels Rookie mistake. Many people before you has gone bankrupcy after spelling out "there's no way that X doesn't do Y". Market does the unexpected more often than what people thing. And if a coin is up 3800%, there is nothing stopping it going to 5200% (even if it's in a deaccelerated way) before the retracement truly starts. In a previous message you said: >I’m revenge trading because I sold ZEC at $350 At the moment of selling, did you also think "there's no way it pumps to 10x in three months"? And yet, the market did it. Here is my unsolicited advice: find an actual trading strategy and a time horizon in which you are most comfortable working, stick to it, follow its signals religiously and stick to set some risk management rules for yourself (e.g. how much % of your account can you risk per trade and how much % of your account can you lose before completely stopping to trade for that month). Revenge trading makes you feel relieved while it goes well, but when it doesn't (and it's a matter of time that it doesn't), expect to lose a lot more than what you earned previously, that without mentioning the persistent psychological pressure and the ego drop when you feel forced to sell low because you can't afford anymore the pain of seeing your account bleeding day after day. >I also don’t believe this bull rally Do you even have some definition or what conditions must satisfy a "bull rally" so that you consider it's a true bull rally? If not, you are gambling. Again, stick to a backtested strategy for at least 30 trades (you can use smaller amounts of money while you are not confident about it yet), journal them (you can something as simple as Excel), and later compute your ROI average. If it's positive, you will have already found an edge that is more reliable than your beliefs and impulses, and given your messages here, it shouldn't be hard to find it. Personally I have two accounts: one for investing and another one for trading. For multi-month/year investing, the safest time for buying crypto was when BTC's price contacted the weekly EMA200. The second best time is... nobody knows, but now it's probably safer than next month. Personally I would just wait for a daily red candle in BTC to be closed, and then, buy your favourite altcoins, set a realistic take profit price beforehand (don't do the silly thing of "I will just sell when I believe it's already on the top or when my favourite cryptobro asks me to do so"), and don't login again until BTC reaches its previous ATH, so you avoid the "revenge investing", the "I will sell this because it's down 10% and I'm scared" and those shits. And with your mind in peace knowing that you are already invested in crypto, you can do your trading in parallel or (even better) in a separated account.

SeriousGains

I’m revenge trading because I sold ZEC at $350. I also don’t believe this bull rally.

SeriousGains

What’s a level you would short ZEC at?

KidAmulet

Let's you and me come back to this comment in August 2027, when BTC is only up 3x (from $85k), and the others are up 6 to 10x and have much more adoption and use cases (which is already true). BTC legitimized the industry. It's work is done. Once the market realizes there are better digital assets, the crypto industry will be a lot better off and no longer a slave to BTC price action. Good thing is the decoupling already started this year with HYPE, ZEC, VVV, and NEAR price action while BTC was in a bear market.

SeriousGains

Does ZEC have a top?

KidAmulet

I'd do: ETH: 30% SOL: 30% ZEC: 30% - Will outperform ETH, SOL and BTC. BTC: 10% - ZEC implosion insurance BTC's heyday is over. The others are better blockchains, and BTC will start having returns comparable to mag 7, so why take the extra risk?

LambertIsMyName

1 ZEC soon to be worth more than 1 ETH, it's like buying ethereum in 2017, crazy

AutomaticOne7

ZEC gonna hit 2k

Peturio

ZEC is the whole story here. It runs at about 150% annual volatility, more than twice SOL, so with 48% of the money it carries 72% of the risk and the four coins behave like 1.8 independent bets rather than four. The upside of that is real. In a one year simulation from current volatility and correlations with no trend assumed, 30% of paths double and the top 5% end above 7x. The other side is that the worst 5% lose 71% or more (BTC alone, 51%), five paths in six go through a 50% drawdown at some point, and one in three goes through 70%. This mix does not do moderate. Two things about ZEC the weights don't show. Over the last twelve months its correlation to SOL, NEAR and HYPE was 0.35 to 0.45, low for crypto, which is why the diversification ratio is a decent 1.19. Over the last 90 days that has flipped. ZEC's beta to BTC is now about 1.9, the highest in the book, so a 30% BTC drop today maps to ZEC −56%, NEAR −40%, HYPE −38%, SOL −35%, and the book −46%. The coin that diversified you last year is the one most sensitive to BTC right now. Replays on today's weights. The October 2025 to July 2026 bear, which cost BTC 51%, would have made this mix +47%, entirely because ZEC rose 152% inside that window while SOL fell 66% and NEAR 39%. The path still went to −22% first, in March. The June 2026 liquidation cascade cost 29% in five days and ZEC fell 33% in it, so in a fast deleveraging it does not hedge anything. The FTX window costs 41%, mostly SOL at −63% (HYPE did not exist yet and is filled in by beta). One number to distrust. Resample the last twelve months of actual daily moves and the median outcome is 14x. That is not a forecast, it is the 2025-26 ZEC rally dominating the sample, and what it tells you is that this book's entire track record is one event. Liquidity at retail size is a non-issue for all four, and a stock market shock on its own barely registers. As usual, there are model estimates under those assumptions, not advice.

Beginning-Stick6479

ZEC: 48% SOL: 33% NEAR 15% HYPE: 4% thanks!

Jabanger

Added ZEC Cash to my portfolio because fuck it

KidAmulet

BTC has had its day and needs to be laid to rest. Put in a mix of ETH, SOL, and ZEC.

Electronic_Quote399

I sold out of pretty much everything besides my eth sol and btc, I had avax, raydium, yes ZEC. Just have dust left of those. I still have a bit of hype left. Reluctantly took 20% of my eth and sol as well, I gotta protect myself in case of a sharp correction, because i have a lot of eth and sol. Left plenty of eth and sol in case of more upside, but I'll buy any of those back with decent opportunity. I piled all my profits into gold. Im not buying any crypto at a local top and bringing up my averages. I was quite red before, I'm very green now, and I need to sell something and lock in profit, before I start buying more. After an across the board rally like this, even if the bear market is over, which yes I do agree, there's gotta be some pullback from here. If im wrong, which I am all the time short term, I still have plenty of eth and sol to make more profit. But if i'm right, it would be completely stupid not to take any profit, just to let bitcoin correct back to 70-75k before chopping for months, then rallying again. I had +25-75% on some pretty hefty bags and a couple small positions on low caps that were up 100-300%. Locking some in is the only way to play it.

foxyevolution

Well the entry isn't $35k anymore due to the market conditions. Problem with mining is if the token pumps, so do miner prices. I rotated all my BTC devices out to Z15 units that mine ZEC.

foxyevolution

Basically crypto miners are the backbone devices for for proof of work chains like BTC and ZEC. You essentially purchase a device, send it to a hosting location if you can't run it yourself (most can't), pay the monthly power cost, and get paid daily. It does take some upfront capital to get involved, but once you ROI you are golden. Especially if you constantly rotate your units from more profitable ones. I threw about $35k into a handful of units and easily earn $80-90k/yr. Does it depend on the value of the coin, yes. I believe in the coins I choose to mine. Especially when they 5x because I held my earnings.

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Post is by: Altruistic_Rule8916 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1wmgdq6/today_crypto_analysis/ **Massive Green Day Across Crypto – BTC Back Above $85K, Alts Leading the Charge (Sept 21, 2026 Market Update)** What’s up everyone, Just checked the boards and it’s looking like a proper risk-on day. Broad-based green across the board with some serious outperformance from the alts. Here’s the snapshot from the major pairs (USDT): | Pair | Last Price | 24h Change | |------|------------|------------| | **BTC** | $85,989.52 | **+6.67%** | | **ETH** | $2,741.43 | **+6.20%** | | **SOL** | $118.56 | **+9.46%** | | **ZEC** | $1,530.95 | **+6.34%** | | **XRP** | $1.5014 | **+8.78%** | | **NEAR** | $4.111 | **+10.66%** | | **SUI** | $1.0458 | **+26.86%** | | **BNB** | $797.31 | **+5.78%** | # What’s driving the move today \- Bitcoin finally punched back above the psychological $85k level with solid volume (2.17B on the pair). After the choppy action we’ve seen recently, this feels like real buying pressure rather than just a short squeeze. \- Ethereum is keeping pace but lagging BTC slightly on percentage terms — classic mid-cycle behavior. \- The real fireworks are in the mid-caps and ecosystem plays. **SUI** is absolutely ripping (+26.86%), **NEAR** is up double digits, and **SOL** continues its strong relative performance. These aren’t random pumps — they’re the names that have been accumulating quietly for weeks. \- Even privacy plays like ZEC and the more traditional large-caps (XRP, BNB) are participating. Breadth is healthy. This looks like a classic “everything is green” session rather than a narrow BTC-only move. When you see SUI, NEAR, and SOL leading while BTC is also strong, it usually means risk appetite is returning. # Short-term technical read \- BTC reclaiming $85k with a strong daily candle is constructive. Next real resistance sits in the $88k–$90k zone. Support now flips to the previous breakdown area around $82–83k. \- SOL holding above $115–118 is key. A clean daily close above $120 would open the door for a run toward previous local highs. \- SUI’s move is extended on the daily, so some pullback/consolidation wouldn’t be surprising, but the strength of the trend is hard to ignore. # Medium-term outlook (next few weeks to months) I’m leaning bullish for the remainder of Q3 into Q4 2026 for a few reasons: 1. **Macro tailwinds** – Risk assets have been finding buyers on dips, and crypto is starting to catch a bid again. 2. **Relative strength in alts** – When SOL, SUI, and NEAR are leading, it usually means capital is rotating into higher-beta names rather than just parking in BTC. 3. **Structure** – Many of these charts have been compressing or building higher lows. A strong weekly close this week would confirm the shift from range-bound to trending. **Bull case**: BTC grinds toward $90k–$95k over the next 4–6 weeks while SOL and SUI continue to outperform. Altseason metrics start flashing properly. **Base case**: Continued chop with higher lows. BTC holds the $80–85k zone and we get rotational strength rather than a straight parabolic move. **Bear case** (lower probability right now): Failure to hold $82–83k on BTC and a sharp rotation back into stablecoins. Would need a clear catalyst. # Personal take Today feels like one of those sessions where the market is telling you the sellers are getting exhausted. The fact that even the more “forgotten” names (ZEC, NEAR) are participating is a healthy sign. I’m not chasing the SUI candle here, but I’m watching for pullbacks to add to higher-conviction names. Curious what everyone else is seeing. Are you treating this as a relief bounce or the start of something more sustained? Stay safe out there and manage risk. # #Crypto #Bitcoin #BTC #Ethereum #ETH #Solana #SOL #SUI #NEAR #XRP #BNB #CryptoMarket #Altcoins #Bullish *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

KidAmulet

Bitcoin is kinda done. It helped solidify the industry, but there are much better blockchains out now. From now until the next cycle top, you'll be lucky to get a 3x out of BTC (somewhere between $200 and $250k). Better to spread it out into ETH, SOL, and ZEC. Moderate to bull case estimates from now until next cycle top: ETH: $10-15k = \~4-5.76x SOL: $600-1,000 = 6-10x ZEC: $10-20k = 6.66-13.33x All three of these are not really going down the risk curve. They are all blue chip assets.

Standard_Quarter6698

Tell that to my wallet with 5 ZEC tokens in it that I paid $150 for a little over a year ago.

SeriousGains

But the ZEC tables are open.

SeriousGains

That’s what ZEC longs are essentially doing.

SirBrickALott

Ubot is a clear insecure and emotional zec holder. He really thinks that some anonymous redditor can influence people not to buy ZEC…and that’s could affect ZEC’s price. Are you that dimwitted really?

piggleii

Posting about ZEC only gets you downvoted to death. I'm bullish, but I'll just keep it to myself. Yes, I realize this post is also going to get downvoted to death.

oopssomething

So 1 ZEC gains around $1.000 per month, but this might go a bit faster when it gains more marketcap. This this mean a realistic end of year target is $5.000?

sexibilia

Can't stop won't stop ZEC.

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Post is by: No1worldchamp and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/litecoin/comments/1wkdfn2/could_litecoin_replicate_a_similar_move_to_zcash/ **I have just been looking into this and going through Ai also to see what similarities Litecoin has to Zcash.** **Strong similarities between LTC now and ZEC before it started to move.** **Both are old, established proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.** Zcash launched in 2016; Litecoin goes back to 2011. Neither needed to prove it could survive an entire crypto cycle. **Both spent years far below previous highs.** LTC is currently around **$58.84**, roughly **86% below its $410.26 ATH**. **ZEC was similarly neglected immediately before its move.** It was about **$74 on 30 September 2025** before reaching approximately **$734 on 7 November** — nearly a **10× move in roughly six weeks**. **Both have fixed maximum supplies.** Litecoin’s maximum is **84m LTC**; approximately **77.6m are already circulating**, so more than 92% of the eventual maximum supply already exists. **Both use declining PoW issuance.** ZEC’s November 2024 halving reduced issuance before its enormous 2025 move; Coinbase specifically identified lower issuance as one of ZEC’s supportive structural factors. **Litecoin has the same type of future supply event approaching.** Its next halving will reduce its block reward again in 2027. That’s potentially important if demand increases at approximately the same time. **Both have privacy functionality.** Privacy was central to ZEC’s repricing. Litecoin isn’t primarily a privacy coin, but MWEB gives it optional confidential transaction functionality. The narrative isn’t remotely as powerful yet, but the underlying feature exists. **Both can benefit from “old coin rediscovery.”** CoinDesk specifically described the 2025 privacy move as capital rotating back toward themes associated with the 2017–18 era. **LTC already has very broad liquidity/exchange availability.** That’s important because if interest suddenly returns, investors don’t have to wait for major exchanges to list it. **LTC now has something ZEC didn’t have in exactly the same form: a US spot ETF.** Canary’s spot Litecoin ETF, LTCC, began trading on Nasdaq in October 2025 and physically holds LTC. With Litecoins market cap currently sat at only 4.5Bn it looks interesting to me along with the 2027 halving on the way. This is NFA and just a comparison of the two before Zcash moved. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Sajigae

Monero if you're really serious about privacy. ZEC if it's about investment returns

SeriousGains

ZEC short is sure looking tempting

colemusic1

There has been a significant amount of things that have changed. IBIT is genuinely no speculative BTC ETF anymore. It’s got $100B+ in assets, and we have live data now that is showing us how much inflows/outflows is happening intraday. And that’s a huge deal. And that doesn’t mean cycles don’t matter, they still do. But what it does mean is we don’t have any data on how cycles can/will run when this has only been happening since 2024. ETHA (ETH ETF) is also attracting a significant amount more inflows lately, and they even have ZEC on there now too. This is a big deal for BTC specifically though because it exposes BTC to millions of more investors who otherwise don’t own a crypto exchange account and maybe don’t want to. They simply just login to their brokerage platform, buy some IBIT and call it a day. If you want to know how significant this genuinely is right now from live readings of the top 5 most actively traded stocks / ETF’s: • IBIT (spot BTC) • BITO (BTC futures) • NVDA • INTC • SPCX

Aerocryptic

If you've picked ZEC below $100 then all I can say is congrats on the gamble. If you've bought the pump during the past year, then good luck on taking this amount of risk. If anything Reddit has a long story of being late

mossyskeleton

Honestly reddit generally has a pretty bad track record with picking winners and losers crypto. I've been around since basically the beginning, so I've seen plenty of examples of this. And everyone is currently hating on ZEC, so I am feeling pretty comfortable that ZEC will continue to shine this cycle.

anymonero

> If ZEC flips ETH in price at any point It did in 2016

LTP-N

You're too emotionally invested. It's all a gamble, nobody cares about use-cases or morals or any BS like that, so ZEC flipping ETH literally means nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Logical_Lemming

If ZEC flips ETH in price at any point that'll probably be the last straw that makes me sell all my crypto and never look back.

Aerocryptic

The last coin I'd like to trade rn is probably ZEC. Already up more than 70x from the lows where all the whales started buying and too much mind share to short with confidence Don't touch the hot potato if you don't work in the kitchen

djscoox

To be honest, the whole "privacy narrative" is exaggerated in general, in fact I don't think there is a privacy narrative going on at all but people are just reverse-engineering a story from the price move to confirm their bias and keep price pumping. It's like saying "we saw something in the sky, we don't know what it is but we are just going to assume it was UFO because that's what we wish it was." With Zcash it's the same: everyone wants to believe the rally is driven by utility and grassroots mass adoption, but all I see is Winklevoss VC wank. Zcash has 2x'ed in a very short period of time, and yet it's not like people are scrambling to protect their privacy. In fact, everyone is still on Whatsapp instead of SimpleX and using fiat to pay for goods and services. If you genuinely worry about privacy right now, you are a nerd or a criminal; trading ZEC or XMR on a centralized exchange does not make you either. Shielded usage hasn't even remotely kept pace with price. If mass privacy adoption was real, I very much doubt ZEC would still be traded on centralized exchanges. Therefore, it looks like the ongoing ZEC rally is primarily speculatively, and that's perfectly fine. You can still make huge gains from ZEC, but let us stop pretending there is widespread desire for financial privacy driving price.

fan_of_hakiksexydays

There's definitely some good reasons for ZEC to pump, but you guys should definitely look at the reasons why ZEC is pumping before jumping in. It's not so much that the news is about anything that exceptional, despite bagholders now trying to call it the "invisible Bitcoin" lol. It's a lot of your typical alt coin news and "partnerships", governance voting, someone famous mentioning ZEC, VC and funds who put money into it, etc...except that it all came out at once. One of the main tech reasons is that the network upgrade should now fix the major security issues, and reduce the block time. So it's not so much that it's doing something exceptional or groundbreaking, it's just that it won't be as shitty. But ultimately the big reason is the ETF. Even in 2026 crypto ETFs are still a big deal. An alt coin getting an ETF is still gonna create a major pump. Whether the pump can sustain is another story. We've seen what happened to ETH, SOL, XRP, ADA, BNB, LINK, etc...

SeriousGains

Anyone who sold ZEC think we might finally know what I felt like to be an early Bitcoin fumbler?

2_The_Moon_And_Back

ZEC, probably by end of November.

TexasBoyz-713

Who hits $2.5k first, ETH or ZEC?

verysillyman

ZEC what in the actual hell…

sexibilia

ZEC is life ZEC is love.

jawni

> a lot of the time an asset goes up because of institutional endorsement (people buying in on top speculating that the institution knows what they are doing when they put money in), not really direct institution investment. which institutions are endorsing ZEC but not investing in it?

corpski

This sub always loves to hate the coins that pump, and loves the ones that don't make it to the top. It's always been consistent like that. The crowd here doesn't get it. The optional privacy is what makes it more appealing to the institutions. The black and white crowd are still too idealistic and can't wrap their heads around the obvious value proposition. ZEC will continue to pump and outperform XMR throughout the next cycle. I can't even buy XMR in good volume today from any reputable exchange if I wanted to. Kraken is not available in my country.

evanjmf

ZEC to da fuckin moon baby!

CreativeAd8814

CYPH owns like 1.5% of ZEC

Conscious-Lurker-723

Always good to see these posts, it’s a sign that ZEC is doing well.

2_The_Moon_And_Back

Look at ZEC go damn

Aerocryptic

Don't feel attacked cause I'm talking about your bags. If you think that ZEC's price action over past year is the result of an organic adoption, I may have a couple of bridges to sell you.

billybobbybrownbaby

so glad i closed my ZEC long and kept LINK open. i’m such a good and smart trader 🫠

Dear_Poem4566

ZEC will reach 3k probably even 5k , A lot of big whales are accumulating this coin + team behind this token has heavy connections with darpa and israeli government

SOUNDSLAPS

If you want privacy and the flexibility of using exchanges, then ZEC is your only option. This is likely what’s driving the price up, it has a massive use case for the right people. It also had a capped supply at 21 million coins, it’s going to be interesting to see where this goes. If Monero offered something similar they would be able to get on exchanges making buying/offloading actually feasible at scale.

SOUNDSLAPS

The problem with Monero is the fact that it is solely a privacy coin so exchanges won’t/can’t list it due to AML. It’s hard to load and unload Monero especially at volume. As bullshit as ZEC is, the fact that it can play on both sides of the fence keeps its use case very much alive. Question is, is it a pump or is it a cheeky way deep pockets that need privacy are skirting something to do with AML on exchanges? It’s going to be interesting to see how its adoption plays out.

No-Masterpiece2246

Zamn. Monero looking undervalued. ZEC pump about to dry up.

jawni

1. Everyone knows alts drop faster and rise faster, obviously alts had a bigger drawdown. 2. In the last 60 days, a lot of the projects have outpaced bitcoin. https://www.coingecko.com/en/crypto-gainers-losers?time=d60&top=100 3. The market is maturing, coins with their own fundamentals are seeing bids when the rest of the market is not. When you look at the CoinGecko link, the very top gainers all have good fundamentals: PUMP, VVV, ZEC, LIT, ENA, UNI, CAKE, Just buy coins with good fundamentals, aside from a true "alt season" the market might be the easiest to trade that it's ever been.

Timely_Food_7352

mexc has been solid for this rally. ZEC volume there actually jumped to #3 right behind BTC and ETH, so liquidity is surprisingly deep. Plus 0 fees and up to 100x leverage if you're playing the squeeze/swings.

PeteyPab305

OK? I already know these things, but claiming LTC is better simply because it shares Bitcoin's UTXO model is an empty assertion. Zcash is an upstream fork of Bitcoin Core: it uses the exact same base UTXO model for transparent transfers, but pairs it with actual zero-knowledge cryptography (zk-SNARKs) for shielded privacy. LTC’s opt-in MWEB sees negligible volume and adoption by comparison. Beyond that, ZEC maintains an active developer roadmap, clear cryptographic utility, and liquidity, whereas LTC’s main historical purpose as a fast, cheap transfer rail died once low-fee stablecoins took over. Dropping buzzwords like UTXO doesn't prove superiority when the actual market utility has passed LTC by.

Educational_Speech58

LTC uses same amounting model as BTC UTXO and Cardano uses EUTXO so LTC is better than ZEC ore XLM ore XRP

PeteyPab305

That's is exactly why I don't buy it though, It offers essentially no special utility, it solves not problem, and has never really peaked my interest, XMR has some unique traits - ASIC resistance etc.. ZEC has a great wallet, and both unshielded and shielded TX's and both have a semi decent exchange presence. ZEC is especially intriguing being that is it fixed. LTC doesn't solve an obvious problem to me.