
While Bitcoin staggers below $100K – likely to sober up in a hedge fund’s basement – and $2+ billion in leveraged dreams are sent packing, Zcash (ZEC), that most polite and discreet of cryptocurrencies, somehow dances through the chaos in a tailored tuxedo, smoking a metaphorical cigarette holder. 🕶️💨 How? Well, perhaps it wasn’t quantum cryptography or institutional whales… but the ancient, entirely unpredictable phenomenon of a dinner conversation.
Enter Arthur Hayes, former co-founder of BitMEX, dashing rogue and crypto’s resident James Bond with margin calls, and Naval Ravikant, guru, philosopher-king of AngelList, and occasional tweet philosopher. They met. Sparks flew. Or, more accurately, Naval casually whispered “$ZEC” like a bedtime story, and Arthur, ever the romantic, “aped in” because, frankly, the brokers wouldn’t let him – and nothing tempts a man more than forbidden trades. 🚫💸