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fyi this is completely false
the network is not down. a few explorer apps are connected to a bad node, so the explorers are false.
but network is fully functional, can confirm below
$HYPE and $ZEC are on generational runs because CT is finally rejecting insider VC dumps and memecoin grifts.
A real HODL culture is back, and VCs are left bagholding dogshit tokens with years of vesting ahead.
Nature is healing.
20 reasons why zcash is going to 250k+
1. zcash is literally the only viable candidate for global digital cash. period.
2. it brings cryptographic privacy to a space that has slowly devolved into open-source surveillance.
3. bitcoin was engineered to be peer-to-peer electronic cash but got lazy and settled for ossified digital gold.
4. humans have never been this heavily surveilled. on-chain privacy isn't a feature; it's survival infrastructure.
5. the engineering talent density is unmatched: zooko, bowe, zkdragon, the zodl team. elite builders don't stick around ghost chains.
6. the culture is built to relentlessly ship and push boundaries: pioneered zk-SNARKs, now pioneering quantum-resistant recovery layers.
7. zero predatory VCs, zero saylor premium, zero institutional overhead pushing for the kind of ossification that kills protocols long-term.
8. architected from day one to scale for billions of people via massive pipeline upgrades like tachyon and next-gen shielded wallets.
9. there is literally zero competition. zcash is natively encrypted. everything else is a transparent public ledger or a clunky, mixed-in band-aid.
10. the onboarding narrative is ridiculously simple: "you can buy bitcoin at $555 today." it's just bitcoin but private and actually unstoppable.
11. the reflexivity loop is violent: price ticks up -> new buyers enter -> more zec enters the shielded pool -> circulating supply collapses -> price rockets.
12. the deepest bitcoin OGs are quietly positioned: winklevoss, naval, balaji, barry silbert... and zooko literally worked at digicash and wrote the first blog post to ever mention bitcoin.
13. bitcoin paved the dirt path from magic internet money to digital gold. zcash is building the hyper-highway: absolute encrypted money for billions.
14. transparent blockchains are an inherent bug for enterprise adoption. no real business is broadcasting its entire treasury, payroll, and margin to competitors on a public ledger.
15. transparent coins face a terminal fungibility crisis because of taint. zcash solves this mathematically: one shielded ZEC is always indistinguishable from another.
16. regulatory compliance does not require financial doxxing. viewing keys let you selectively disclose transaction history to an auditor without leaking your net worth to the timeline.
17. the ux barrier is officially dead. shielding used to require a complex cypherpunk ritual; now it's a seamless, 1-click native default in modern wallets (zodl...)
18. proof-of-work bootstrapping is the only way to launch a truly sovereign network without a cabal of insiders pre-mining the supply and dumping on retail.
19. Wall Street completely financialized and captured bitcoin to extract value from retail via proxies. zcash remains the untamable, raw cypherpunk asset.
20. the second the global market realizes a transparent public ledger is a permanent surveillance weapon, privacy flips from a luxury to an absolute human right. that's when the repricing hits.
Even if you ignore everything else about zcash:native other than the price history it's still one of the most interesting projects of all-time
>price went -97% down only for 7.67 years
>that's 92 months straight
>that's 400 weeks
>that's 2,800 days
And then +3,620% in a couple months
We may never see something like this happen ever again
Zcash has returned a 9x profit over the past year...
While major altcoins and practically the entire crypto market was suffering crippling losses, @Zcash has been quietly surging.
One year ago, $ZEC's market cap stood at just ~$890 million.
At time of writing, that figure sits at around $9 billion.
The resurgent privacy narrative has been very good indeed for $ZEC's long-term holders.
OKX just added support for $ZEC perpetuals in Europe.
Until now, most $ZEC holders could only profit when price moved higher, but X-Perps on @OKX change that by unlocking more ways to trade the market.
Go long if you believe in the move, go short if you think it's overheated. Hedge your spot bag when the market gets uncertain.
On my opinion the top 3 public names in quantum is:
1. $INFQ
2. $IONQ
3. $XNDU
Once $QNT IPOs it will land in the list as well. I also have to say if $XNDU succeeds their ceiling might just be the highest, though $INFQ is by far my overall favorite.