>>61072036
Agree with you.

Check the XMR vs ZEC & DASH, multi-year channel.
Every time the suits spin up the PR machine we get the same circus: sudden order book air-gaps, coordinated thinkpieces, KOLs, then a vertical candle so the tourists feel smart. Feels also a bit like the Piratechain pump last cycle. Where were the z-guys 3 months ago? Now they’re “everywhere” overnight like someone flipped a switch.

ZEC really runs on headlines and XMR runs on habits. Optional privacy is a permanent self-own because users leak context by default; default privacy with optional transparency is how you survive long term when being wrong has consequences. CEX listability in the case of privacy coins isn’t legitimacy, it’s convenience for SPECTATORS. Real demand lives on the rails that don’t post on X or write dossiers: P2P, OTC, swaps and merchant flows. XMR owns those because the people who actually need privacy already made their choice.

Look at the chart and breathe. XMR has been grinding up the same rising channel against ZEC and DASH for years while those two do their scheduled amusement-park rides: chart straight up, straight down, bagholders minted, narrative reset, repeat. If it only moons when the media cannon is at 110%, it bleeds out the rest of the cycle.