With the recent trend of BTC airdrops, I had thought something like this would happen sooner or later. I did think it'd happen with a more well-known privacy coin like Monero or ZCash though.

What's interesting about this is that people seem to be buying up a bunch of ZCL just for the fork. Which tells me that ZCL will most likely dump hard immediately after the fork.

I personally don't think it's very productive to try and shoehorn the state of the BTC chain into a privacy-centric coin. It's clear that the current BTC "mainstream" does not care about private transactions. That's fine-- the privacy coins can establish themselves the same way Bitcoin did... by being the de-facto official currency of darknet trade.

What do you think?