Bitcoin Vs Zcash Debate Intensifies As Zec Reclaims $700 Level

The debate between the Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) communities intensified on Sunday as the price of Zcash recovered to over $700, after falling to a low of $598 on Saturday.

“The ‘Bitcoin only, everything else is a scam’ crowd is going to get really twisted trying to figure out what to say about Zcash,” the CEO of investment firm Bitwise, Hunter Horsley, said in an X post, which ignited a firestorm of responses.

“No, we’re pretty comfortable calling this obviously coordinated pump and dump of a VC coin a scam,” Bit Paine said in response, referencing Zcash’s 1,500% rally since October.

Zcash is ranked as the 12th largest crypto by market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap, close to breaking into the top 10 by unseating the Cardano network’s native token ADA (ADA), which has a market cap of over $17 billion at the time of this writing.

In November, Arthur Hayes, founder of the BitMEX crypto exchange, said that Zcash is now the second-biggest liquid investment held by Maelstrom, his family office, with BTC being the biggest liquid asset owned by the fund.

Leap Therapeutics, a biotech company, rebranded to Cypherpunk Technologies, a Zcash treasury company, on Wednesday, with backing from the Winklevoss Twins’ Winklevoss Capital, causing its shares to spike by over 170% on the news.

Source: CoinTelegraph