ZCash was founded by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn in October 2016 in an attempt to solve the problem of an open financial system that Internet users are looking for. Bitcoin is a pioneer in an open financial system, and ZCash strives to maintain the same structure, but with intimacy and functionality. Fungity is the ease with which a product can be replaced by another, which is important in the cryptographic world, because it ensures that the user's currency is not worse than another.