Whats this about bitcoin and zclassic combining?

Bitcoin is staying the same and independent.

What happened is that there is another fork of Bitcoin called Bitcoin Private (BTCP). Normally you get 1 to 1 of each coin when someone forks the original, but in this case they forked from Bitcoin and airdropped to ZClassic (ZCL) holders, a privacy coin. So you get 1 BTCP for every BTC and 1 BTCP for every ZCL.

This caused the price of ZCL to raise to a high price before the fork date (Feb. 28th) and fall precipitously afterward.

Bitcoin Private is being developed by a completely separate team than those who work on the main Bitcoin chain. There is also the argument that Bitcoin Private may not even be a worthwhile product since the main Bitcoin chain devs are working on Schnorr, another scaling protocol for the original Bitcoin that will also improve privacy.

/r/OutOfTheLoop Thread