People who sold their BCH early have more sats because of the fork. They didn't have to care about it at all. Just do the minimal amount to sell it to someone who cares more than they do.

nullcount

I guess...if you really care that much about yet another shitcoin

nerd2ninja

bitcoin

Lightning Channel Hard Fork Scenario

2bithits

So LN nodes have an incentive to operate nodes on the fork chain? At least temporarily. They'll need to deploy a node there unless they they want to risk losing access to those forked coins via an undetected fraudulent channel close.

And like you say, there may be loot available by stealing your peer's fork-coin sats. 

Historically, the move has been to sell the forked coins ASAP. But once a node operator is setup on the forked chain, they may decide to let it ride and see what happens.

Could watchtowers or SCBs offer a way to close forked channels gracefully and/or protect one's forkcoins from theft without having to run a full-blown node on the fork-chain?