Hi Kano -- I think you will be best person to give some insights on this.

I am a bit worried about this hard fork thing, mainly because a large portion of my group's mining operations on the BTC farm. The rest is alts mining.

I see Antpool and several Chinese pools... already signalling BU and Poloniex has also issued a statement on any pending hard-fork https://poloniex.com/press-releases/2017.03.17-Hard-Fork/

While, I understand and appreciate your position on the Segwit matter and Core team's politicus... I now need to advise my team on how to manage the BTC wallets. We use Bitcoin Core wallet latest version v0.14, Coinbase and Poloniex. My question is how bad can this get. ie. managing BTC in which wallets vs putting everything in Coinbase and let them handle the risks. I am assuming that if BU is the way forward, we probably need to to use a BU BTC wallet.

If this request for insight is off topic please do advise so that I can take offline. But I am sure everyone will be interested on how to manage any pending risks and changes in their offline/online wallets.

Thanks