I don't believe ETC will survive. I keep hearing "ETC is just few weeks old, that's why it doesn't have any projects" but this argument is just weak. ETC is as old as ETH is, and out of 20 serious projects all 20 decided to go to ETH chain where whole ETH team is and this is game over for ETC.
Price of ETC will keep dropping as new projects rise on ETH chain, for example this weak Gnosis is coming to ETH.
Then BTC price is low ATM, when it gets up, ETC will fall drasticly.
Then, in 2 weeks hacker will be able to use his 7 million ETC, my guess is he will dump it because its way to risky to hold ETC and hope for a bigger price than it has ATM.
Then switch to PoS which might or not which might split the ETC community again...etc etc..