Soon the ETH network will move to ETH2, and big changes will come with it, as the main change we have the PoW to PoS, this means the mining process will move to staking, and now the miner will be the holders.
It will become party for the rich. Small miners will have less chance to join the party and get income. Exchanges will dominate ETH 2.0 nodes and it can make the network more centralized. Time will show how Ethereum network will become less decentralized.
So, my question is, what if a hard fork comes and the old ETH users decide to keep alive the old ETH network while ETH2 comes as a new branch on the node? just like it happened with ETC. Is it possible?
I think miners will switch their rigs and hashrates to Ethereum Classic. It is reason for the on-going hype on ETC last few weeks. The coin doubled its price from $12 to $24 and it can rise more.
Where are miners with big hashrates, there will be games of pumps and dumps. Ethereum Classic will have more waves for traders and investors will have good profit from ETC.