Hi
As you all know Ethereum is scheduled for a hard fork this September. I was wondering, are Ethereurm holders will get "Free" Metropolis tokens just like what happened with Bitcoin and Bitcoin cash? Have the Ethereum team decided that? Please provide me with a link to your source. Thank you in advance.
It is not a "free token distribution". When there is a hard fork, a new blockchain is created. Hard Fork definition: "
An extreme change to a blockchain that permanently diverts the chain itself from the previous version, requiring all nodes to upgrade their protocol software".
If some nodes don't upgrade their protocol software, they can still keep the old blockchain version "alive", mining in the old protocol.
What you had in the old one stays there, and if someone wants to pay you anything for that you can sell it.
If 100% of the miners support the fork and change to the updated protocol, then the old one dies.