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Lately there's been a lot of talk about Zcash and what's happening there. Here's the full story and everything you need to know today. The beginning. 2013 - a group of cryptographers at Johns Hopkins University, led by Matthew Green, set out to solve Bitcoin's biggest weakness: lack of privacy. They invented zk-SNARKs, a mathematical proof that lets you verify a transaction without revealing sender, receiver, or amount. In 2016, cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox launched Zcash through Electric Coin Company. Edward Snowden and Naval Ravikant backed it. Within a year it hit $1B market cap. How it works. Unlike Bitcoin where everything is public, Zcash has two address types: transparent (t-addresses) and shielded (z-addresses). Users choose their privacy level. The tech impressed JP Morgan enough to integrate it into their blockchain. Problem: less than 1% of transactions actually use full shielding - Chainalysis can trace over 99% of ZEC activity. The golden years and the fall. First week after launch - ZEC traded above $5,000. Then a long decline through 2018-2023, bottoming out below $30. In late 2025 - a sudden revival: +816% for the year, price hit $744, market cap crossed $10B. Privacy coins became relevant again. The crisis. January 7, 2026 - the entire ECC team resigned. CEO Josh Swihart called it "constructive discharge": the Bootstrap nonprofit board changed employment terms so drastically that staying meant compromising integrity. He named specific board members as having "moved into clear misalignment with Zcash's mission." The team is now forming a new company and building the "cashZ" wallet. What now. The protocol works fine - it's open source, decentralized. But privacy coins live on active development. No team means no upgrades, no security patches. ZEC dropped 7-8% on the news, down 18% year-to-date. Founder Zooko Wilcox stayed neutral, says he trusts the board members. Two camps, unclear future. Classic crypto governance drama - but with real stakes for privacy tech.

EN: Lots of news about Zcash lately - if you want the full story from the very beginning, drop a like Quite a drama unfolding, interesting series to watch

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First pump.fun token to hit $100M market cap White Whale started as a joke about a Hyperliquid trader who ran up $90M then blew most of it. Original team abandoned it, the trader himself did a community takeover in December, injected $140k liquidity. Now it's up 50x in a month😎 One guy turned $370 into $800k. Classic memecoin lottery. The CTO team likely holds a fat chunk of supply - that's how these pumps sustain. If you're not already in, you're buying someone else's exit liquidity. Pump.fun volume just hit ATH at $2B daily. Memecoin casino is back open😂 I told youuu😂😂 NFA, DYOR

We're closely watching the situation in Iran. The country has a large Telegram and crypto user base. Reports over the last hours confirm a full internet blackout - Cloudflare data backs this up Meanwhile, Bitchat downloads spiked 460k

✍️X will be banned in the UK? X is crypto's de facto town square. Musk can move any token with a single post, and the platform hosts most of the alpha, CT drama, and project announcements. Now British regulators are threatening a ban over Online Safety Act violations. A full UK ban is unlikely - too much political and economic blowback. But even partial restrictions or app store removal would cut off a chunk of the crypto audience from real-time market chatter.

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