$ZEC Essentially, it is a PoW. Its purpose in driving the market up is to support the iteration and sales of mining machines, rather than being driven by narratives like "privacy" or "censorship resistance." These narratives are more about providing psychological comfort to retail investors who cannot dissect the industry chain logic after a price increase.

Based on the current mining machine shipment pace and hash rate deployment expectations, $ZEC the total network hash rate is highly likely to reach about 40 GS/s by Q2 next year. In other words, there is a 99% probability that the price will hit a new all-time high in Q2.

But after reaching a new high, whether the price can continue to rise depends not on market sentiment, but on whether Bitmain can monopolize the generation iteration cycle (if not, refer to $KAS ).$ZEC