This fork is Segwit2x, and is considered to be an adversarial fork -- some even consider it the first battle in a civil war. The 'dividend' of getting free money does not apply here. In fact, a lot of folks in the Bitcoin community think that the price of BTC is actually signficantly _depressed_ because of this uncertainty. It's almost certainly not contributing to the price rise.
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This fork is Segwit2x, and is considered to be an adversarial fork -- some even consider it the first battle in a civil war. The 'dividend' of getting free money does not apply here. In fact, a lot of folks in the Bitcoin community think that the price of BTC is actually signficantly _depressed_ because of this uncertainty. It's almost certainly not contributing to the price rise.