im curious what is going to happen when the BTC upgrades, im under the understanding that a new HARD FORK is being created for it....
Probably not a lot - the changes being implimented by the fork is intended to FINALLY fix the scaling issue that has been causing a massive backlog on BTC transactions, and are the result of a BROAD CONSENSUS of agreement at that "summit" meeting a month or so ago involving pretty much ALL of the major pool operators, ALL of the major exchanges, and most if not all of REALLY BIG mining farm operators.
Without the changes being implimented, or changes of a SIMILAR nature, Bitcoin was heading to a long-term crash because it flat out COULD NOT HANDLE THE LOAD and had been overloaded for most of the past year, with an overload level that had been growing and causing fees to climb a LOT.
This is NOT the core dev team operating without consensus, it is the core dev team FINALLY breaking down and agreeing to make changes IN ACCORDANCE TO A LARGE CONSENSUS to finally fix very long-standing issues that were threatening the long-term viability of Bitcoin.
I believe that the recent price drops on Ethereum and ZCash vs. Bitcoin is in part DUE to this resolution of long-standing Bitcoin scaling issues having finally gotten approved.
Saying that this fork is going to cause serious waves is no more than baseless ignorance and FUD.