Turns out Uncle Sam's been sitting on some Zcash this whole time. Fresh intel reveals the feds are holding around $1.5M worth of ZEC—leftovers from that 2017 AlphaBay takedown when they shut down one of the darknet's biggest marketplaces.

Timing's interesting here. SEC's got a Crypto Task Force privacy roundtable scheduled for December 15th, and guess what's on the agenda? Zcash. The whole privacy coin debate's heating up again, with regulators trying to figure out where to draw the line between financial privacy and compliance. This stash might just become a talking point when policymakers start circling back to how they handle privacy-focused assets.