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Zcash wins '25 // LIT token // Flow pain // Wrench attacks // WOJAK! // Prediction

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Brady Dale
Jan 01, 2026
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Happy new year! WAGMI, frens!

Eleven years ago, the price of bitcoin was $317.

The 11th largest cryptocurrency was counterparty.

The 111th largest was unobtanium.

A WINNER IS ZOO(ko)!

A lot of people are going to make predictions for next year about the crypto world. Most of them will be pretty anodyne. The only good one is the set I made.

We do the prediction lists because they are engagement bait start conversations. We do them because we hope to point back and say “We were right.”

We do them because they are fun, mainly. (or I think they are)

But keep in mind that the world is messy and developments develop out of nowhere. For example, I went looking for any mainstream crypto thinkfluencers who wrote end of 2024 predictions that called for zcash (ZEC) popping in 2025. I found zilch.

I found a couple obscure tweets calling 2025 ZEC’s year, but knowing how Crypto Twitter works these were bagholders who were going to say that anyway. I bet if I went and looked I’d find people saying 2025 woul…

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