A critical Zcash Orchard bug price crash story is now one of the clearest examples of how a fix can solve the technical problem while leaving the market with a much bigger question. The bug, hidden for four years inside Zcash’s Orchard privacy pool, could have allowed unlimited, undetectable counterfeit ZEC tokens to be minted. Developers found it, fixed it quickly, and disclosed it transparently. Then the market wiped out $3 billion anyway.