- Privacy coin attacked for “dumping on investors”.
- Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin – also an advisor for Zcash (ZEC) – says coin is exploring uncharted terrain.
- Market cap – but not coin price – up (*******************************************************, % since launch.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin leapt to the defense of privacy coin Zcash (ZEC) after a prominent crypto influencer branded it a “ failure. ”
Zcash wields a market cap of over $ million, and is the second highest capped privacy coin at time of writing, behind Monero ( XMR).
According to crypto-twitter influencer@ WhalePanda, the failure by Zcash to increase its market cap and deliver a return to investors renders it a failure. WhalePanda also references the contentious Zcash founder’s reward, which sees creator Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn receive 2, (ZEC per month.
When do you consider your project a failure? Is it when after a funding round, 3 years of founder’s rewards & a request for an extension of these rewards the marketcap of your coin is still smaller than DOGE? A silly meme project that hasn’t gotten an update in 5 years.
Zcash – Privacy Crypto Splits Opinion
At the current price of $ (*************************************************************. 90, the founder’s reward equates to $ (******************************************************, per month. Across (********************************, the ZEC price fluctuated between $ and) $ 50.
More worryingly for Zcash investors, the privacy coin has failed to increase its market position relative to the competition. WhalePanda compares it unfavourably to the meme-crypto, DogeCoin (DOGE), which has a market cap several million larger than the nd ranked Zcash. *******
But digging back through Zcash’s media history, we can see that it carried the 85 th largest market cap as early as October
Ethereum founder, and Zcash advisor, Vitalik Buterin took exception to WhalePanda’s assessment of Zcash, offering up the followingretort via Twitter.
) He said:
Zcash has been doing cutting-edge research and deployment of privacy tech and at the same time exploring uncharted terrain in blockchain governance, and the platform keeps getting better. No idea how one can consider it a failure.
Zcash may not have climbed the crypto rankings, but its market cap increase relative to three years ago leaves plenty of room for profit – depending on where you draw the line.
Due to the staggered manner in which Zcash coins were released, the coin price was initially squeezed as high as $ 5, 941 According to CoinMarketCap.
Zcash increased 7.6% in price on the day, while the argument regarding its legacy rages on.
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