Why is Zcash not really a privacy coin?
Because most exchanges I know only accept depositing and withdrawing coins to and from transparent Zcash t-addresses... there is nothing private about that.
If privacy for Bitcoin would be optional I suspect that not many exchanges would enable private deposits/withdrawals, but it certainly have much better chances than for ztrash.
I guess if you disable z2t by default, like tromp just said, they would kind of be forced to do that. With Zcash, they kind of have the power of choice as it's a lower marketcap and it's technically possible to go from shielded to transparent. But if we disable this on the
by far biggest market cap asset by default, they kind of have to follow suit.
Most reported trading volume on centralized exchanges is fake and washtrading, even on Binance, so I don't trust what they are saying.
On the other hand, one of the the biggest volume in Bisq exchange is for XMR and you can't fake that so easy, or you can't disable and halt withdrawals.
Sure; big Bisq fan here, too - just trying to say I wouldn't be too worried on centralized exchanges' opinion on things when it comes to advancing Bitcoin to the
next level if I may say so.