{"id":72089,"date":"2026-02-12T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72089"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:46:32","slug":"barry-silbert-forecasts-up-to-10-of-bitcoins-market-cap-will-move-to-privacy-coins-crypto-mogul-says-zcash-can-rocket-500x-btc-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=72089","title":{"rendered":"Barry Silbert Forecasts Up To 10% Of Bitcoin&#8217;s Market Cap Will Move To Privacy Coins\u2014Crypto Mogul Says Zcash Can Rocket 500x, BTC Won&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Barry Silbert,<\/strong> CEO of cryptocurrency conglomerate\u00a0<strong>Digital Currency Group<\/strong>, said Wednesday that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are poised to become the next big investment opportunity in the industry.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin Not Really \u2018Anonymous\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>During a conversation with <strong>Anthony Pompliano<\/strong>\u00a0at the Bitcoin Investor Week conference, Silbert said his thesis is that 5-10% of Bitcoin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) market cap would rotate into privacy coins, including <strong>Zcash\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/ZEC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(CRYPTO:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/zec\/usd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ZEC<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Silbert acknowledged that Bitcoin also started as an \u201canonymous\u201d currency, but then it \u201clost the plot\u201d due to the rise of on-chain analytics firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBitcoin, for all its amazing attributes, is likely never going to have any privacy features,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Privacy Coins Have 500x Upside Potential, Says Silbert<\/h2>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean Silbert is bearish on Bitcoin\u2019s long-term potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly bullish about Bitcoin as a &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50567877\/barry-silbert-forecasts-up-to-10-of-bitcoins-market-cap-will-move-to-privacy-coins-crypto-m?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Barry\" silbert forecasts up to of bitcoin market cap will move privacy coins mogul says zcash can rocket btc won>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry Silbert, CEO of cryptocurrency conglomerate\u00a0Digital Currency Group, said Wednesday that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are poised to become the next big investment opportunity in the industry. Bitcoin Not Really \u2018Anonymous\u2019 During a conversation with Anthony Pompliano\u00a0at the Bitcoin Investor Week conference, Silbert said his thesis is that 5-10% of Bitcoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: BTC) market cap would rotate [&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-72089","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\/72089","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=72089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}