sad to see ETC performing so weak. I followed ETH and later ETC since its incorporation. Lost some $ on the ETH crash and regained it with the ETC pump.
ETC would have been a valid coin from the beginning if they just pointed out that

(a) its the original Ethereum as it has been announced once (bailout-free)
(b) all future updates, dapps and developments can and will be implemented on ETC too

THATS what investors wanted. But the Dev team and the community lost this track. Instead they increasingly promoted it as if it where sort of a competing "new" "better" ETH coin, as if it were an ETH fork or a new coin at all with own separate projects!

Nobody ever wanted an ETH clone and nobody gives a shit about it! Everybody wanted the original, bailout-free Ethereum with all the expected future developments of Ethereum!


just my 2 cents.

(PS: and yes, ETC can fork for technical (non-bailout!) reasons as this was always in the concept of the ethereum development)