This is not the first time Zcash had a hidden supply integrity bug. The last time it happened ZEC went to zero for 7 years. The current holders largely do not know that history. ๐
Udi Wertheimer said it directly on June 4. Last time a bug like this was disclosed after being in the wild for over a year, everyone lost faith and Zcash went to zero for 7 years. Until they found a new generation of buyers who did not know the history.ย $ZEC
ZEC was up over 1,000% in the past year. Grayscale had filed the world's first privacy coin spot ETF. Multicoin Capital disclosed a strategic accumulation position. The institutional narrative for ZEC was the strongest it had ever been.
Then AI found a 4-year-old counterfeiting bug in one day.
Here is the structural tension the market is now pricing.
The bug is patched. The team acted responsibly. Disclosure was transparent and rapid. No exploitation is believed to have occurred. All of that is genuinely positive.
But 30% of circulating ZEC is shielded and its supply cannot be cryptographically verified. The proposed fix requires a network upgrade with turnstile accounting. Arthur Hayes exited his entire position. A new generation of institutional buyers just learned the history Udi was referring to.
Grayscale filed a privacy coin ETF right before a privacy coin supply crisis. That timing is the most important detail in this entire story.
Does the institutional narrative survive a bug the institutions cannot independently verify was never exploited? ๐
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