I think you got it all covered. So far so good.

I love how fickle everyone is. If i am to believe Zerohedge then a majority of the price decline for btc in the recent weeks past can be attributed to turmoil over a btc hardfork. Is it possible it was fake news the whole time? Just a fud campaign started by a group of people who missed the ship and hoped to catch up?

How would such a fork effect our network? Do we then need to pick a fork or does it happen automatically?