The whole crypto is in bear market, and yet the shielded pool number has not decreased for Zcash, meaning Zcash has an insanely strong community. (which is absolutely fundamental in crypto)
The recent poll shows rejection of ZSAs, and the new update of Zashi wallet to Zodl requires no transfer of fund or typing in secret phrase (no friction for user), tachyon is also set to go live this year.
Both Naval and Balaji are pushing Zcash relentlessly.
You should buy in spot to speculate, instead of guessing which side the funding rate is going to tilt for these sudden open interest + volume rising coins. Been waiting for this for over a month. #FHE
I was at @cz_binance Binance square AMA and I actually laughed hard. (Buying a meme you genuinely find interesting can occasionally be very profitable) #山野万里你是我藏在微风里的欢喜
With Xmr exploding to all time high, that can only mean a few things.
1. Zec is bound to catch up, and is lagging due to recent resignation news. (since Zcash is a better tech than Xmr, for those of you who argue otherwise, you can check for yourself)
2. Xmr's price is falling back down, since it cannot sustain a higher valuation than a better protocol (Zec).
that leads to the analysis of how much higher of a valuation of Xmr is to Zec.
Currently, the market cap (not fdv) of Zec is 6.83B while xmr is at 12.85B.
i would argue this leaves a lot of room for margin of safety.
side note: the fact that Xmr is exploding, it means potential narrative shift to privacy again. ( I think tailwind for privacy is here, not just short term but to stay)
in terms of interest of "privacy" in google search, developed countries are more prevalent. (more potential buying power)
The great people actually share a lot in common in their thinking.
In one of Charlie Munger's clips, he speaks about the human psychology of misjudgement, he mentions the Standford experiment of the guard and prisoner.
In that example, he says it's not just RECIPROCATION TENDENCY and ROLE THEORY (you are expected to act out your role) that caused it, but also CONSISTENCY and COMMITMENT TENDENCY, the more you act out certain behaviour, the more you are pounding that idea into your head.
This resonates with what Jordan Peterson has said, which is: you are what you act out.
he says nobody is sophisticated enough to act one way and be another in their own head.
Peter Thiel's idea of evaluating a business. a business create X% of value and capture Y% X and Y are independent value.
most biggest innovations have their profits competed away, so the Y% is close to zero. eg: railroad, airlines etc.
when he did paypal, he calculated most cash flow come from years later, thus it's important to evaluate whether business would still exit long after, rather than purely focusing on growth rate, eg: a company can be doing growth at 100% a year and go out of business in 5 years time because of competition. thus it's not worth investing from an investor perspective.
therefore he likes business in monopoly because of Y% and business life expectancy.
that got me thinking, how do you know a business has defensible moat over the long run especially we live in a world where there is breakthrough in tech everyday, one way of him evaluating is whether the product has network effect.
while it's true, we simply do not know what is going to come along and new innovations can still disrupt everything, eg: AI search to google search (maybe not the best example as al search now complements google search to some extent )
there is a tweet from @naval "Continuous learning is the only defensible moat."
doesn't this reach the conclusion of always investing in capable and ethical people, and that's almost the only determining factor?
tho in the book "poor Charlie's almanack", Charlie did say if you had to pick between good business and good management team, he would lean more towards good business.
I actually wonder if that is because he doesn't invest in businesses that have high multiples anyway (as he describes as having high margin of safety), therefore he leans towards the good business side, and it doesn't apply as much in tech companies.
I find it quite funny that often many kols would talk about macro as if they were experts/ spend years studying it, marco is super complicated with many strings pulling in many different directions.
I personally would only listen to people like ray dalio that have remarkable achievements in life.
Bought this dip, in the form of BTC, majors have room to pump since the current price is quite far from all time high, r/r is decent, funding rate mostly close to 0, similar to april imo, just not as extreme. #btc
Crypto depends very much on narrative, thus the strength of a particular narrative is very important.
How do we evaluate the strength of a narrative? If a narrative has been here since the dawn of time, that means the narrative is more true than the others because it has survived the test of time.
Privacy is that narrative
technology is evolving ever faster, we often don’t know which narrative to catch because everything could just change tmr, but yet, freedom, privacy, these topics are timely, and never go away, bitcoin rose because of freedom.
Now it’s up to us to contemplate privacy once again, in the form of Zcash. Use @zashi_app wallet for your own sake.
The risk appetite is still very strong, S&P 500 actually turned green after a sudden drop, dips contiued to be bought, crypto is a bit underpriced relative to equity in my opinion. Will keep monitoring.
The volume does speak for itself, truly incredible.
The only downside is that it’s clearly visible we see sell pressure at around 700$, but if we consolidate here by changing hands and btc ripping, then this would be a very succesful trade, the r/r is still solid.
Btw ignore all the noise, just look at data, a good rule of thumb is that traders that give you a thousand coins are often incapable traders.
Just like a theory that explains everything explains nothing or if everything is of equal importance, nothing is important.
Despite recent strong surges in the price of $Zec, I SEE THERE IS MORE UPSIDE TO IT.
1. Funding rate is a good indicator of sentiment particularly for altcoins, mostly negative funding rate means $Zec is not OVERHEATED in any sense.
You can recall earlier this year when btc had insane positive funding rate, which then followed a crash. that was signs of too much leverage.
$Zec is by no means over-leveraged, this means the price increase is mostly driven by spot, very healthy dynamics.
2. People still don’t understand the fundamentals of $Zec, everyone should try Zashi (Zcash wallet), try to shield the $Zec in Zashi, then send Usdc on bnb or eth chain to other wallet, you would understand why Zcash is THE next big thing.
THERE IS CURRENTLY NO GOOD SOLUTION FOR PRIVACY EXCEPT ZCASH.