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Zcash announced that the newly launched shielded Ironwood pool is being “formally verified” to rule out all undetectable counterfeiting bugs. Ironwood pool was proposed as a solution after the project’s flagship Orchard pool encountered a counterfeiting bug that could have minted new ZEC tokens. However, given the strong privacy design of the Zcash protocol, it couldn’t be verified whether the bug was exploited or not. In early June, notable figures in the sector, such as Arthur Hayes, dumped their ZEC holdings and slammed the project for a lack of capacity to prove that the bug was not leveraged to mint new tokens. The FUD dented market sentiment, dragging ZEC price down to $251 from $640, marking a +60% crash in three days. An attempt to calm the volatility by top privacy supporters failed to materialize. The ZEC price crash only eased after the
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While several market analysts see room for additional upside if the Zcash price clears key Fibonacci resistance, others remain cautious, arguing that the recent rally has yet to invalidate broader bearish patterns. The divergence in market views comes as Zcash reaches a notable network milestone, with 80% of its total supply now mined, reinforcing discussions around scarcity and the project’s long-term sustainability. Zcash price approaches major Fibonacci resistance Crypto analyst CryptDollar highlighted that ZEC is currently testing a confluence of technical resistance levels on the daily chart. These include the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement, the upper Bollinger Band, and horizontal resistance around $490 on the Kraken exchange. ZEC is testing the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement, upper Bollinger Band, and key resistance near $490, with s
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StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson, a founding scientist of the privacy coin Zcash, challenged Bitcoin’s 21 million cap this week. He argued that lost private keys will steadily shrink the usable supply and proposed a 4% annual issuance limit instead. The pushback was immediate, since Bitcoin supporters treat the fixed supply as the network’s founding promise. Zcash creator Zooko Wilcox answered with a rival design that keeps hard caps intact. Bitcoin Maximum Supply. Source: BeInCrypto Why Ben-Sasson Says Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap Fails Ben-Sasson helped invent the STARK proof system now used across crypto and co-authored Zerocash, the 2014 design behind Zcash. His critique starts from the numbers on lost coins. Chainalysis estimated that 2.78 million to 3.79 million BTC were already unrecoverable by 2017. The figure assumes Satoshi Nakamoto’s untouched coins are gone for good. Courts ar
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In a post, Zcash co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson proposes rethinking Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply cap. According to Ben-Sasson, capping the supply of Bitcoin at 21 million BTC does not make sense. This is because, over time, keys will be lost. He believes that this will eventually happen over an infinite time horizon. The maximum number of Bitcoins that can ever exist is 21 million BTC. This hard cap on the total Bitcoin supply is a fundamental part of Bitcoin’s monetary policy, which is designed to promote scarcity and prevent inflation. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto encoded this limit into the cryptocurrency’s source code. Ripple-Operated Rail Dropped by Major Software Company XRP, Shiba Inu (SHIB), Solana (SOL) and Bitcoin (BTC) Price Analysis for June 8: Momentum Is Not Fueled Yet Zcash Co-Founder Suggests Bitcoin Move Away From Fixed 21M Supply Cap and
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On July 8, 2026, every asset in the crypto top 8 declined over 24 hours. Zcash, ranked 14th, rose 4.7%. Over seven days it gained 19.5%, the strongest performance of any large-cap asset on the board. This analysis covers the structure of that move and the two conditions that determine whether it extends: volume persistence and the $440 level. ZEC trades at $469.57 as of July 8, 2026, per CoinGecko. Market cap: $7.88 billion. 24-hour volume: $518.4 million. Weekly change: +19.5%. The Unique Angle: strength against the tape Correlation is the default state of crypto. On red days, nearly everything is red; dispersion is the exception and therefore the information. Today’s tape: Bitcoin minus 0.3%, Ethereum minus 0.9%, XRP minus 3.0%, Solana minus 4.0%, BNB minus 1.8%. ZEC: plus 4.7%. A sub-$500 million token rising against that tape would carry no signal; thin books produce random pri
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Zcash price has pulled back from the $500 resistance zone after a sharp rally driven by renewed optimism around the upcoming Ironwood upgrade, although technical indicators still favor another attempt higher if key support levels continue to hold. Summary Zcash price has retreated from the $500 resistance after profit-taking, but continues to hold above the key $440 support zone. Technical indicators and liquidation data suggest a break above $480 could trigger another move toward the $500-$540 region. Rising geopolitical tensions, weaker institutional crypto demand, and regulatory pressure remain the biggest risks to the bullish outlook. According to data from crypto.news, Zcash (ZEC) price climbed to an intraday high of around $505 before retreating to about $466 on July 8 as traders locked in profits after a nearly 28% advance. The rejection came as leveraged lo
Zcash price has pulled back from the $500 resistance zone after a sharp rally driven by renewed optimism around the upcoming Ironwood upgrade, although technical indicators still favor another attempt higher if key support levels continue to hold. According to…
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Key highlights: The ZEC price is holding above key moving averages as $480 and $500 remain the next hurdles Zcash’s market cap has fallen to $6.6 billion, though price action continues to recover from earlier lows Ironwood adds a new shielded pool designed to make Zcash’s coin supply independently verifiable Zcash has quietly put together a strong recovery over the past few months. After trading as low as the $140-$260 range earlier this year, the ZEC price has climbed back to around $472, putting one of its biggest resistance zones back into play. Crypto analyst Ardi believes $480 is the most important price on the chart. That’s because a descending trendline and a horizontal resistance level meet at the same point, creating what he calls a compound resistance. In his view, if buyers can break above that level and hold it, the ZEC price has a good chance
The post Best Altcoins To Buy In July 2026: ZEC, UNI, BCH Lead Rotation appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Look at the top of the board on July 8, 2026, and you see red: Bitcoin minus 0.3%, Ethereum minus 0.9%, XRP minus 3%, Solana minus 4%. Now scroll down. Zcash up 4.7% on the day. Uniswap up 4%. On the week, three coins that most traders wrote off years ago, Zcash, Uniswap and Bitcoin Cash, are all outrunning Ethereum. The rally did not stop. It rotated. The frame first, as always. There is no single best altcoin, and anyone selling you one name is selling you their bags. What the data shows is a specific pattern: the majors ran first (BTC +7.1%, ETH +11.3% on the week), paused today, and capital slid into large, liquid, older alts. This list ranks the beneficiaries and the base-layer names, each with its case and its risk. The One Number That Matters 19.5%. Zcash’s weekly gain, at a $7.88 billion market cap, while every coin in the crypto top 8 printed red over the last 24 hours.
