This is new, maybe ~ 2 years to the market.
USA is the finance king of the world. We invented modern banking and will likely dominate fintech, I’m not concerned with this.
I understand where you are coming from, but these excamples have nothing to to with currencies. Web browsers a just a tool/utility, that’s it, the example looks good but has nothing to do with financial instruments and currencies.
Your 2nd example about tech companies makes more sense, but than gain, it’s about the tech companies and if you believe that the ECC is such a firm (absolutly possible of course) you should be company shares and not ZEC.
If it doesn’t make sense, why the frequent comparisons to HTTP vs HTTPS?
I never made such comparision. If you ask me personally it’s a wrong comparison anyway as it includes only the privacy factor and nothing else. If we talk about value, capital, economy, it needs a bit more than a simple http versus https.
Look, i’am the least who is bearish about the Zcash tech, i’am not, but on everything that surrounds this tech.
Just take a look into this and you barely will find a crypto to crypto trading pair with BTC:
And no, it’s nothing new at all. It’s the most normal thing that you either hold the speculated currency or cash out (temporary) against hard currency, in this case stable coins. Cross-currency market pairs are very low in volume in general hence it does not make much sense to speculate on a sudden drift from BTC/USD* to BTC/ZEC, it simply won’t happen.
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I understand that you as an US citizien think it’s normal that everything is registered in the US making it literally just an US crypto coin, many don’t share this opinion.
About modern banking. It’s a myth that it was invented in the US, actually it was invented while there was no US on the map. Just as an interesting side note of course:
The History of Modern Banking and its Origin: From Early Merchant Banking to the Modern International Banking System. Modern banking originated in Italy around 1150 as Jews fleeing persecution brought new practices, including “discounting,” to the merchant banks of the Italian piazzas.
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Modern banking in the sense of post WW2 world. Especially in the sense of digital markets.
The USA is leading because it owns 75% of the world’s capital, so the option there is money there is progress makes a lot of sense, this is the meaning I transfer to zec, there will be money will progress, but if it costs 50 dollars, then the money will run out and progress along with them, do you agree? It is vitally important for zec to stay ahead of others to start investing in it.
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Ohh, ok, you mean digital economy, that makes of course much more sense.
I only regret why I didn’t convert all my ZEC to ETH back in march when I thought about it, I lost so much money not doing it, ZEC looks like a bottomless well at this point.
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@TheSmiths - What The Smiths song best reflects the despair you’re feeling right now? Perhaps:
or maybe this one:
A light called Zcash 
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https://twitter.com/ZcashID/status/1343452159942127616
This is definitely an interesting development.
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Taking a loss and getting up the next day to keep fighting … takes endurance and guts. Many cannot resist the temptation to trade that sting for a toxic self-validation.
— Josh Marshall
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Just got an info email from Bittrex that ZEC,XMR,DASH and GRIN will be delisted from 15.01.2021.
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Meh… don’t care… Gemini 
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We’re in trouble here, boys.
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Does anyone have any ideea what happened?
ZEC can be traded on Ethereum which has some of the biggest exchanges in crypto anyways (Uniswap, Sushiswap, Bancor, Balancer etc.). Wrap it on Ethereum anytime without KYC using Ren protocol for instance, and wrap back to native ZEC anytime.
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