{"id":745332,"date":"2026-08-28T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/grayscale-says-zcash-can-challenge-bitcoins-network-effects-as-privacy-demand-grows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T07:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:15:24","slug":"grayscale-says-zcash-can-challenge-bitcoins-network-effects-as-privacy-demand-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/grayscale-says-zcash-can-challenge-bitcoins-network-effects-as-privacy-demand-grows\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayscale says Zcash can challenge Bitcoin\u2019s network effects as privacy demand grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/bitcoin-vs-zcash.jpg\" alt=\"Grayscale says Zcash can challenge Bitcoin\u2019s network effects as privacy demand grows\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>ZEC has climbed roughly 19-fold in a year, yet Grayscale says its sub-1% share of Bitcoin\u2019s market cap leaves room for further upside.<\/p>\n<p>Zcash could emerge as a meaningful challenger to Bitcoin\u2019s dominance among digital assets as the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence puts a premium on financial privacy and fuels concerns over AI-powered surveillance, according to Grayscale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a new research <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayscale.com\/the-stack\/zcash-can-challenge-bitcoin-s-network-effects\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a>, Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said Zcash (ZEC) has \u201csecond mover advantages\u201d that could help it challenge Bitcoin\u2019s (BTC) entrenched network effects, something previous alternatives such as Litecoin (LTC) have failed to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Central to Pandl\u2019s argument is financial privacy. Zcash can shield transaction information, which Grayscale argues could become increasingly valuable as AI systems become better at analyzing financial activity at scale.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Zcash could emerge as a meaningful challenger to Bitcoin\u2019s dominance among digital assets as the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence puts a premium on financial privacy and fuels concerns over AI-powered surveillance,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}