CJ

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[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@stoolpresidente terrible holding call cancelled Jags first TD. so bad.

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@ArdiNSC What’s next after $1100-1200 liquidity zone? Back higher?

[Sun Liao @sunxliao]

Don't miss the forest for the trees.

A very strong bull cycle is starting...

Stay the course. 🔷🫡

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@MrketInsider He said 10k a few weeks ago now it’s in its final 1/3rd? dude is all over the place 🤡 $ZEC

[Sun Liao @sunxliao]

And... here... we... go... 🔮

$ZCSH and $CYPH on Monday. 🫡

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@mikealfred Yeah because all smart $BTC whales are rotating in to $ZEC time to join them Mikey

[Brian Cohen @inthepixels]

Zcash Has Arrived at Bitcoin Cash’s December 2017 Valuation

An unusually clean historical comparison sits inside Zcash’s 2026 rally: Zcash today occupies almost the exact valuation Bitcoin Cash held immediately before the final, explosive phase of its 2017 run.

On December 12, 2017, Bitcoin Cash ( $BCH ) traded near $1,615 with 16.85 million coins circulating, giving it a market capitalization of roughly $27.2 billion. On September 25, 2026, Zcash ( $ZEC ) trades around $1,530–$1,545 with roughly 16.9 million coins circulating—a market cap of approximately $26 billion.

Both assets share Bitcoin’s $BTC monetary architecture: proof of work, a 21-million-coin cap, and, at these two junctures, virtually identical circulating supplies. The price parity is not a low-float illusion; it is an authentic match in valuation.

What happened next to Bitcoin Cash offers a compelling historical benchmark. Just eight days later, on December 20, 2017, BCH reached roughly $3,923 per coin and a $66.2 billion market cap—roughly 2.5 times Zcash’s current valuation. Because their coin supplies match so neatly, the math translates directly: $66.2 billion for Zcash would yield a coin price of approximately $3,900 on October 4th.

The more significant question, however, is not whether ZEC can match that number, but what the market was buying in each case.
Two Divergent Solutions to Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash grew out of crypto's early scaling debates. Its answer was simple: enlarge blocks, process more transactions on-chain, and preserve Bitcoin’s role as peer-to-peer cash through brute throughput. For a brief window, markets rewarded that thesis, propelling BCH to the third-largest cryptocurrency.

Eventually, the market looked elsewhere. The broader ecosystem prioritized off-chain scaling layers over block-size expansion. While BCH survived, it never challenged Bitcoin’s monetary dominance and now trades at a fraction of its 2017 peak.

Zcash addresses an entirely different limitation: base-layer privacy.

Scaling can be offloaded to secondary layers, but privacy requires fundamental architectural choices. Bitcoin’s public ledger deliberately exposes its transaction graph, enabling surveillance firms and governments to link pseudonymous addresses to real-world identities.

Zcash alters this premise entirely.

Using zero-knowledge proofs, shielded transactions confirm validity without revealing sender, recipient, or balance.

Bitcoin solved how distrustful actors reach consensus on an open financial ledger; Zcash solves how they reach consensus on a ledger they are not permitted to see.

The Inversion

This historical parallel highlights a telling shift in market appetite. In 2017, investors assigned tens of billions to the idea of a high-throughput Bitcoin fork. In 2026, capital is instead underwriting digital scarcity married to cryptographic privacy. Zcash now commands roughly four times the market capitalization of Bitcoin Cash.
Markets are not philosophical arbiters, and price runs do not validate long-term architecture; speculation shapes 2026 just as it shaped 2017. Nothing guarantees Zcash will hit BCH's peak, nor that it will follow BCH's subsequent path.

Yet the core observation remains striking: a Bitcoin-derived asset with ~16.9 million coins has reached $66 billion before. BCH tried to solve space; Zcash is trying to solve visibility. And Zcash now sits exactly where Bitcoin Cash's final run began.

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@pdicarlotrader $CYPH $ZCSH

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@pdicarlotrader $CYPH and $ZCSH

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@pdicarlotrader Thx @pdicarlotrader what about $zec $zcsh ? I’m sure many and all your subscribers would love hear your thoughts and see a chart breakdown.

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@wliang Nobody knows and 10% seems low. Maybe $ZEC can actually flip $BTC someday since it’s better prepared vs quantum threats. BUY🚀

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@pdicarlotrader $TE they closed it right under $5.10 to shake out the weak hands, seen it a million times. then they’ll run it up and make everyone chase. $7+ by next Friday.

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@EdwardTWinz YES

[Edward @EdwardTWinz]

I’m back and ready to run it up again. 💰

$5 to $1M starts NOW 🧠

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[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@EchoAnalysis Imagine thinking $TE is going back under $3 before $10+

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@wave3traders Your PT for $TE by end of this year?

[CJ @Optionsmonster8]

@TopStockAlerts1 $30

[Jesse Lonis @JesseLonis]

There are 25 people left in event #2 @tritonpoker. The winner will receive $771,000. Im back here again! If I win, I'll give $1,000 to one person who reposts and likes this tweet. Must follow me to win. Watch on YouTube under Triton Poker! 🦍