DCG Founder: Bitcoin Validates Trillion-Dollar Demand, Privacy Coins Like Zcash Will Benefit from 'First-Mover Advantage'

Barry Silbert, founder of Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of Grayscale, stated on X platform that in 2015, the market had not yet recognized the global demand for decentralized digital value storage tools like Bitcoin, which could reach up to $2 trillion. At that time, the industry generally believed that Bitcoin itself was sufficiently private to serve as a relatively confidential global value storage and transfer tool. Now, as market awareness improves and privacy needs are more clearly identified, privacy coins like Zcash will benefit from this 'first-mover advantage'.