Zcash price rose about 6% on Monday as new ZEC▼$450.40 mining machines from Bitmain appear hard to get until September 2026.
The price of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Zcash rose about 6% to $410 on Monday as traders picked up on a fresh bottleneck behind the privacy coin’s rally.
The jump comes as the wider crypto market was also stronger, with Bitcoin trading above $80,000. But ZEC had its own extra story running in the background, because Bitmain’s newest Zcash miner appears hard to get through its official store until September 2026.
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Harwarde Miner Deficit
The shortage talk appears to be centered on Bitmain’s Z15 Pro, a ZEC-focused Equihash ASIC miner. On Bitmain’s official product page, the only Zcash-focused miner Z15 Pro is marked as sold out, with the shipping period shown as September 2026.
That doesn’t mean every Zcash miner is unavailable everywhere. Some machines may still be listed by resellers or on the secondary market with different prices, but with reliability risks.
Josh Swihart, the founder of ZODL and a former Electric Coin Company executive, also pointed to miner selling as a smaller daily pressure point than many traders may assume.
In a May 2 post on X, Swihart noted that a big number of Zcash miners sell what they receive each day, but at $380 per ZEC, that comes to under $550,000 a day.
- Data from BitInfoCharts shows Zcash’s average block time at about 1 minute and 14 seconds, with 1,156 blocks mined over the previous 24 hours.
- Miners receive 80% of the block reward under the post-November 2024 funding structure.
- If regular miner selling is relatively small and Bitmain’s official Z15 Pro supply is booked months out, the ZEC rally may start looking a little less like a plain privacy-coin bounce and a little more like a mining supply story.
Institutions Line Up
The hardware shortage talk is also landing shortly after Foundry, one of the biggest institutional crypto mining infrastructure firms, moved into Zcash.
In April, Foundry launched its institutional-grade Zcash mining pool after first announcing the product in March. The company said the pool had reached about 30% of the Zcash network hashrate, with multiple institutional Zcash miners connected.
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