History shows that great protocols are forged through existential crises. Ethereum survived The DAO hack and the controversial hard fork that followed. Bitcoin itself survived the 2010 value-overflow bug, when 184 billion BTC were accidentally created and Satoshi coordinated an emergency patch and chain reorganization to reject the invalid inflation transaction.
These events did not kill ETH or BTC. They proved that serious networks can coordinate under pressure, defend their monetary integrity, and emerge stronger.
That is why I see the Zcash Orchard incident not as the end, but as a defining trial. If $ZEC can continually respond with transparency, stronger verification, and renewed trust, this may be the beginning of its real journey toward $100,000.
Zcash saw huge volume around the $600 level, but unlike after last year’s October 11 move, it still hasn’t broken out quickly.
I’m honestly confused. Even though I’m long-term bullish and really want to add more, I feel like there’s some force suppressing Zcash despite such massive buying pressure. I just don’t know what it is.
One possible explanation is that the market maker / whale bought tens of thousands of ZEC on Coinbase to prop up the price and create the impression that Wall Street giants were accumulating.
That would attract more long-side liquidity in futures — meaning they could find enough counterparties — while simultaneously shorting hundreds of thousands of ZEC on Binance.
Based on my years of trading experience, this kind of rare price divergence usually leads to either a massive pump or a sharp dump. Personally, I’m leaning bullish from here.
If I were still young, like the version of me back in 2020, I would make a do-or-die bet here: go heavily long with 10x leverage, then once the price doubled, deleverage, rotate into spot, and go all in.
But I’m older now. Time spares no one. I just can’t bring my risk appetite back up anymore.
I’m worried that a potential Bitcoin crash could drag ZEC down violently, similar to what happened on October 11 last year. Even though it dropped from the 200s to 180 and then ripped all the way to 750, I’m old now. I no longer have that sharp, all-in courage I had when I was young.
Sometimes you have to take a bet.
When you’re young and don’t have much capital, your only shot is to go against the trend, catch the dip, and go heavy.