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That pump was due to btcp fork. Zcl has no team at the moment. They moved to btcp after the fork.

https://medium.com/@ZclassicCoin/the-future-of-zclassic-c2b3206c1233
The future of this coin is high risk I agree

Charlie Lee sold all his Litecoin. The coin is open source and the community can develop it if they want, or they can all sell and the coin goes to 0. Either way, zero coin tech that works is rare and valuable in today's market. Zclassic is a fork of Zcash, they removed the 20% mining fee among other things. They improved a very popular and old coin, Zcash. They abandoned the project because they are chasing the money and are greedy. It is an improved Zcash but the community will decide its fate. It is a high risk trade... and you're right that there's a good chance it could end up failing, and looking like a Bitconnect chart.