When the ethereum fork happened, Coinbase credited their customers with an amount of ETC equal to their ETH held at the time. ETC was under $1 then, but got to over $20 and now sits at around $14. That makes it nontrivial money given to you for nothing. If you had, say, 100 ETH, you'd have around $1400 worth of ETC right about now.
When the bitcoin fork happens, is something like this likely to happen as well? Could BCC similarly appreciate in price?
I don't have a crystal ball, but shouldn't everybody and his uncle be making sure they get whatever BCC is due them?
Moreover, I just don't quite get Coinbase vs. Kraken on this. Coinbase says that they will give you no BCC, while Kraken will give you your BCC. What's wrong with this picture? If BCC appreciates like ETC, won't people be shooting themselves over having missed the chance to get their free BCC that was due them?
I think you're confusing ETH and ETC roles in this thing. ETC stands for Ethereum Classic, as in the original. The soaring, new version today is ETH...no?
ETC has hardly appreciated in the past year...It is ETH that has taken off. So if BCC is to appreciate like ETC, it will have been a non-event!
The better question is what will this do to the transaction throughput capacity that is the real issue afflicting Bitcoin?