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Verbatim Community Citations & Social Evidence 1 source posts analyzed
Interesting, if... implemented, $ZEC becomes the privacy leader, BTC becomes the privacy runner-up.
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AI visual note: The image shows the title page of a research paper titled "Shielded Bitcoin: Private Transfers on the Bitcoin L1" by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin, dated September 24, 2026, which proposes a protocol for private Bitcoin transfers using encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs. This relates to the post by introducing a potential future where Bitcoin ($BTC) could gain native privacy features through a shielded transfer protocol, potentially positioning Zcash ($ZEC) as the established privacy leader while Bitcoin becomes a privacy runner-up if such a system were implemented.