Crypto Privacy Showdown: Zcash vs. Monero – Who Snags the Crown? 🤡🔒

Late September, a surge so fierce it could be mistaken for a celebrity’s ego, saw Zcash leap ahead, donning the crown of the top privacy coin. Did it shout, “I’m the best”? Maybe. But Monero, lurking in the shadows, looks poised to reclaim its throne, sharpened by the thrill of the chase, perhaps fueled by a dash of envy and a pinch of stubbornness. 🍿👑

Bitcoin ETFs: From Tears to Tears (But Make It $70M) 🤑📉

This reversal, dear reader, is but a flicker of hope amid a month of financial woe. Four weeks prior, these ETFs had bled a staggering $4.35 billion, their assets plummeting like a poorly timed joke at a funeral. The nadir? November 2025, when two weeks saw $1.22 billion vanish, faster than a hare in a rabbit warren. One might say the investors were playing a particularly cruel game of musical chairs-except the chairs were made of ether and the music was a stock market crash.

Uh-Oh, Uzbekistan’s Money Magic? 🧙‍♂️✨

Uzbekistan wants stablecoins and their mystical digital charm introduced into the kingdom’s purse checks over a cup of tea and a biscuit. It all begins with a regulatory sandbox, the kind of place where financial wizards can brew their potions without spilling anything disastrous. This wisely structured journey is a charming little ballet of modernizing payments without losing the kingdom’s watchful eye.

Zcash: Experts Predict HUGE Drop! 😱

Even with this price wobble, the grown-ups with the big wallets haven’t run away. Grayscale is trying to turn its Zcash stash into a proper ETF – fancy! And the Winklevoss twins? They’ve started a Zcash treasury, all dedicated to keeping things private. Rather important, that. 🤫

How Jihan Wu’s Bitcoin Translation Lit a Fire Under China 🚀

Jihan, a man of two worlds (economics and computer science), saw the absurdity of digital scarcity like it was a gentleman’s code of honor. He noted, with perhaps a scoff directed at skeptics, that misinformation was the true blockchain-linear, hard to unravel, and full of unverified nodes. Hence, the translation. A public service, really, for those who tire of mainstream media reporting Bitcoin as a product of “madness and malware” since ’09.

Bitcoin’s Risk-Reward: The COVID Sequel No One Asked For

Bitcoin's Schrödinger's Cat Moment

“The last time I saw such an asymmetric risk-reward was during COVID,” declared André Dragosch, Bitwise Europe’s head of research, in a socially acceptable outburst on X. He was referring to March 2020, when Bitcoin’s price nosedived from $8,000 to below $5,000, presumably because the virus had a vendetta against decentralized currencies.