Hi. Lots o haters and fans here. I'll just say my opinion. To say that btcp will be the next bitcoin is a little too much to say the least (and there are projects far ahead from btcp in terms of privacy, like Monero), but I don't see this as a scam. I just don't see huge red flags yet, and updates keep making me feel better about this, even after the fork.
Zcl was created to remove the 20% mining founder's reward from Zcash, and zk-snarks tech for privacy is a nice thing to have. Bringing those features to btc tech could be a good step forward, more so if you think that btcp is a community driven and open source coin. The fork went smooth, the wallets are working, there are regular updates at twitter and medium, there's already hardware wallet implementation confirmed (Trezor), etc. This is the speculation forum, so we are here to speculate and for profits, not so much to talk about tech and changing the world (there are other forums at bitcointalk for that). So lets speculate. The mainnet is already live, Bittrex zcl hodlers have not yet been credited but is confirmed by Bittrex itself that they will in the short term (probably in a few days), wallet hodlers already have their btcp and Tradesatoshi holders too. The coin is already tradable, but only at Tradesatoshi, right now the price is $70 and there are a lot of sellers (not a high volume, but enough to be able to buy at these cheap prices). I didn't know about that exchange site before, but I used it without problems to buy some btcp. No issues at deposits, trades and withdrawals, only a little slow because of the volume btcp's sellers and buyers brought.
Every fork of btc, even shitty ones like btg are above $100 and always have been, even from the start and after the usual initial dump. Bch is above $1000. Even if this coin is a shitcoin (which I believe it isn't, but I could be wrong), there's a lot of room for profit. I don't see why not we could see $200-500 prices (somewhere between bch and btg) in the near term, and that already means like 3-5x profit from current price, and that could happen as soon as it hits a bigger exchange site (Hitbtc, as bad as it is, has high volume and confirmed the listing of btcp). I wouldn't put all my money on this project, but if we are talking only about speculation, this is a very profitable coin just by its name only. If it's going to bring some good things for the crypto world, only time will tell, but that won't keep me away from trying to make some bucks out of it from the beginning. That's just my opinion from a speculation perspective, feel free to disagree (just don't insult, I don't know why people tend to do that just because they are behind a keyboard).