It's a shitcoin, but they will continue to pump and dump it as long as capital inflows (ie yours) continue to make that possible. Look at the ZEC chart priced in BTC if you want the real story.

Z-cash is literally Bitcoin.

Incorrect

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zcash.asp

Correct. Saying ZEC is literaly bitcoin is the same as saying every fork of bitcoin is literally bitcoin... probably also including litecoin and dogecoin using this standard of logic. Now go look up the list of forks.

There’s different types of a mustard plant, they’re all mustard plants put through different cultivation methods to prioritize certain features or elements. The same be said of any Bitcoin fork, it might not look like the original but it still comes from the same source code. Henceforth, at one time before the code was cultivated it would have been Bitcoin but now it’s a different variation of Bitcoin.

You're trying to draw a parallel between plants and currencies. It doesn't work like that, but I've already said more than enough. Best of luck

A fork is if you took the mustard plant and genetically engineered it until it turned into a dung beetle. In my opinion, the dung beetle is not mustard.

The Dollar used to be a silver coin until it got forked into a silver certificate until it got forked into a gold pegged instrument until it forked into fiat. The same is happening to Bitcoin, and its inefficiencies. Bitcoin used to be slow, clunky, expensive, and high fee until Bitcoin Cash (real Bitcoin), and Z-cash (encrypted Bitcoin) changed that.

Sorry. I don't know if you're a bot, a troll, or retarded. Sorry I don't have time to explain it to you.

It's a fork with several changes