The post Morning Crypto Report: Bitcoin’s ‘Uh Oh’ Pattern Returns as Zcash (ZEC) Pumps Again, XRP Prints $0 After Short Sellers Disappear, Forgotten Bitcoin Rival May Repeat Silver’s 80% Rally If This Pattern Validates appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Two days remain until 2026, and the crypto market feels fine on the surface but still hides some intrigue on a smaller scale. Bitcoin is holding up, but Zcash is back in full pump mode, and that is the same combo CryptoQuant keeps flagging as a BTC risk tell. XRP just printed a weird stat line, where shorts went to $0 in the one-hour liquidation window, while the 24-hour total sits near $2.63 million. At the same time, Monero emerges as a “dark horse” with a big cup-and-handle pitch and an “80% silver-style” upside target if the breakout is confirmed. TL;DR Zcash is pumping again, and the CryptoQuant read is that this has been a bad omen for Bitcoin more often than not. XRP printed a zero-short-liquidation window, meaning that bears were not there to be punished, and bulls took the damage. Monero is pressing a long-term cup-and-handle idea, with an 80% projection if a breakout confirms. Bitcoin raises new red flag as Zcash shines green again ZEC’s move this week is hard to miss. In TradingView’s view, it steps up fast from about $460 to $520 in a few hours with barely any pullback, the kind of burst you often see late in a Bitcoin run, when traders start hunting faster action elsewhere. CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn’s point is as follows: when Zcash starts running on its own like this, Bitcoin has a history of cooling off or taking a hit. That is not magic, it is paternal behavior, as can be seen on the charts. Privacy coins tend to spike when the market rotates into volatility plays, and the heatmap lines up with that story: ZEC lights up while Bitcoin’s line starts to look flatter. You saw a similar mix in early 2021 and mid-2022, right before BTC spent weeks…

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