I don’t think it matters. I believe there is no counterfeit ZEC. The problem is much more nuance: The THEORETICAL RISK of MORE exploitable bugs (thanks to AI) is non-zero and is now well understood by the market / zodlers. Remember when ZEC wanted to be 10% of private offshore wealth? No private offshore wealth will adopt ZK technology without 100% guarantee of no bugs.
In TradFi, if there’s a bug and the whales lose money, they can always claim the middlemen (banks / insurance / whatever). In cryptos, if you lose money because of a bug, you lose it forever.