Early last year, I flagged the privacy coins narrative. What happened next? Zcash and a bunch of other privacy-focused assets just went parabolic. People were literally asking if this was Bitcoin 2.0. That's when things got interesting—suddenly you had every attention-seeking crypto personality out there pushing privacy coins hard. These aren't organic moves. When the scamfluencers and noise-makers started coordinating shills in unison, it became pretty obvious what was really driving the hype machine.