Ethereum classic was a fork of the Ethereum blockchain that happened after the DAO hack in 2016 and views itself as a "censorship" resistant version of Ethereum. They also are against the notion of central planning that they see in the Ethereum chain.
https://www.coinbureau.com/analysis/ethereum-classic-etc/
Could it be a good hedge of Ethereum this year?
We can also see that there is a great deal of developer progress on the coin as the amount of commits to the Github repo is higher than Ethereum and a number of other coins.
Would you invest in ETC?
No I personally wouldn't invest in ETC and I feel like SkyCoin is the real dark horse.
Skycoin is off topic under this thread dude. He's talking about ETC that is an excellent fork of ether. I don't separate it from ether, but for ETC to be successful on the market, they need to do something real. Holders need to see improvements and roadmap.