Zcash EXPLODES Higher!! Are Privacy Coins BACK!?
Published: 2025-12-20
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Published: 2025-12-20
Status:
Available
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Analyzed
Predictions from this Video
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Zcash has experienced a price increase of over 700% in a few months, indicating investor agreement with the changing regulatory sentiment towards privacy coins.
"And given how OG privacy coin project Zcash is up over 700% in a matter of months, it would appear many investors agree."
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Zcash (ZEC) experienced a significant price increase from the mid-$70s to over $740 between late September and early November 2025, a gain exceeding 900% in weeks.
"From late September to early November 2025, ZEC went parabolic. We are talking about a move from the mid70s to a peak of over 740. That's a gain of over 900% in a matter of weeks."
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Grayscale's Zcash Trust experienced substantial inflows, with its value increasing by over 200%, indicating institutional capital positioning.
"We also saw institutional vehicles like Gayscale's Zcash Trust see massive inflows growing over 200%."
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The SEC's new leadership has shifted its stance on blockchain technology, now viewing it as a potential threat to American liberty rather than solely a tool for crime.
"The new leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission didn't just soften their tone, they completely flipped the script. We heard the new SEC chair describe blockchain technology not as a tool for crime, but as a potential quote financial panopticon that threatens the liberty of every single American."
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The Department of Justice will no longer charge software developers with unlicensed money transmission for creating neutral tools without criminal intent, stating that writing code without ill intent is not a crime.
"Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Galliote stated that the DOJ would no longer pursue unlicensed money transmission charges against software developers who create quote neutral tools with no criminal intent. His exact words were, quote, 'Our view is that merely writing code without ill intent is not a crime.'"
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The Treasury officially lifted the sanctions on Tornado Cash in March 2025, as a court ruled that OFAC had overstepped its authority.
"Then we had the tornado cash sanctions officially lifted in March 2025 by the Treasury following a court ruling that said OFAC exceeded its authority."
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The market is undergoing a fundamental repricing of privacy assets, as the realization that privacy is no longer considered illegal suggests they were previously undervalued by approximately 90%.
"This looks like a fundamental repricing of the asset class. Basically, the market realized that if privacy is no longer illegal, then privacy assets are undervalued by about 90%."
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By mid-2027, the European Union plans to prohibit crypto asset service providers from offering accounts for privacy coins, which will effectively ban exchanges from listing Monero or Zcash for EU customers.
"By mid 2027, the EU is set to prohibit crypto asset service providers from providing accounts for privacy coins. This effectively bans exchanges like Binance or Kraken from listing Monero or Zcash for EU customers."
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As of late 2025, nearly 100 jurisdictions are implementing the FATF's travel rule, making it difficult for privacy coins that cannot share sender and receiver information to comply.
"As of late 2025, nearly 100 jurisdictions are implementing these rules. Privacy coins that cannot share sender and receiver information struggle to comply with this."
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The market is likely to bifurcate: the US may foster a compliant privacy sector with selective disclosure tools, while Europe and Asia may push privacy-by-default coins like Monero into peer-to-peer markets and off centralized exchanges.
"So we are heading towards a bifurcation of the market. On one side, you might have the US under a new administration fostering a compliant privacy sector where tools like Zcash or protocols like Aztec and Rail Gun thrive because they offer selective disclosure. On the other side, you have Europe and Asia where privacy by default coins like Monero might be pushed entirely into the peer-to-peer shadows, delisted from all centralized exchanges."
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The future success of privacy protocols in crypto will depend on their ability to balance user privacy with provable regulatory compliance.
"The future belongs to protocols that can thread the needle, providing privacy for the user while offering provable compliance for the regulator."
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While privacy-by-default protocols may remain niche, compliant privacy solutions are expected to attract significant institutional investment.
"Privacy by default will likely remain a niche cipher punk ideal. Valuable but constantly under attack. Compliant privacy is where the trillions of dollars of institutional capital will likely flow."
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