{"id":58947,"date":"2025-11-17T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58947"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:01:36","slug":"privacy-coins-surge-crash-and-reset-does-zcash-bull-run-signal-use-case-building-for-on-chain-anonymity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58947","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Coins Surge, Crash, And Reset. Does Zcash Bull Run Signal Use Case Building For On-Chain Anonymity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over the past two weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/money\/privacy-cryptocurrency-coins\">privacy coins<\/a> have made headlines with dramatic price spikes, defying the broader crypto market trend. On Friday, as <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) fell below $100,000, <strong>Dash<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"DASH\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/DASH-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/dash\/usd\">DASH<\/a>) was up 12.3%. Dash&#8217;s price action suggests bullish sentiment remains despite falls from the peak pricing roughly 10 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The privacy coin rally kicked off in late October led by coins like <strong>Zcash<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"ZEC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ZEC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/zec\/usd\">ZEC<\/a>) and <strong>Monero <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/XMR-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"XMR\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/xmr\/usd\">XMR<\/a>). Zcash became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48570456\/zcash-just-did-what-xrp-and-sol-couldnt-whats-behind-the-brutal-828-rally\">top privacy coin<\/a> this month, hitting an all-time-high of around $730 before investors cashed in. Zcash is now trading in the $560-$565 range. The same sell off hit Dash, going from an all-time-high of around $147 on Nov. 4 before investors sold and crashed the price by 50%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17164526\/DASHUSDT_2025-11-14_10-29-41-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17164526\/DASHUSDT_2025-11-14_10-29-41-1024x556.png 1024w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17164526\/DASHUSDT_2025-11-14_10-29-41-300x163.png 300w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17164526\/DASHUSDT_2025-11-14_10-29-41-768x417.png 768w,https:\/\/contributor-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/17164526\/DASHUSDT_2025-11-14_10-29-41.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Privacy coins suddenly moved away from Bitcoin in late October. Investors were smart to sell. But now that the rally has cooled, is there a case for a bull market in privacy coins?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Privacy coins obscure sender, receiver, and transaction data, offering anonymity that Bitcoin cannot.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about privacy coins that attracted speculators this month, and will they be coming back?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Institutions cannot and will not move trillions of dollars on-chain using a fully transparent ledger,&#8221; said <strong>Shahaf Bar-Geffen<\/strong>, CEO at <strong>COTI Group<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/coti\/usd\">COTI<\/a>) in Israel. &#8220;They need to protect sensitive data to meet compliance requirements, just as they do in traditional finance. On-chain privacy solutions can solve this problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That technology is now possible for the first time, at speed and at scale, and that&#8217;s why the narrative is trending. It was a seminal moment, the dawn of a new era for finance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As blockchain start ups keep popping up &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/Opinion\/25\/11\/48908730\/privacy-coins-surge-crash-and-reset-does-zcash-bull-run-signal-use-case-building-for-on-chain-anonymity?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Privacy\" coins surge crash and reset. does zcash bull run signal use case building for on-chain anonymity>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past two weeks, privacy coins have made headlines with dramatic price spikes, defying the broader crypto market trend. On Friday, as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fell below $100,000, Dash (CRYPTO: DASH) was up 12.3%. Dash&#8217;s price action suggests bullish sentiment remains despite falls from the peak pricing roughly 10 days ago. The privacy coin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-58947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}