The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that early Bitcoin supporters, including the Winklevoss brothers, co-founders of Gemini, are heavily accumulating Zcash (ZEC). As Bitcoin became institutionalized and lost its initial ideals of 'anonymity' and 'privacy', they judged that Zcash, with its 'Shielded Transactions' based on zero-knowledge proofs, is closer to Bitcoin's early ideals. Grayscale founder Barry Silbert compared current Zcash to 'Bitcoin in 2013', stating that it is re-stimulating the imagination for decentralization and privacy that the early virtual asset market possessed. ZEC has risen by approximately 48% over 30 days and 1100% over one year.
