The ZEC/BTC pair achieved a historic technical breakout this week, exiting a prolonged nine-year downtrend and consolidating at 0.007904 BTC, above the 200-period SMA at 0.002567 BTC. Chris Burniske, co-founder of Placeholder venture fund, believes this configuration signals the end of old market scenarios, as previous bullish cycles were merely overheating phases before altcoin collapses. The evolution of on-chain analysis tools, which stripped Bitcoin of its anonymous money status, is now driving capital toward the privacy sector, according to this analysis. Barry Silbert (Digital Currency Group) had predicted that Zcash would reach 1% of Bitcoin’s market capitalization (already achieved in 2025) then 10% (equivalent to $130 billion), a distant but revived target following this structural reversal.
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