I don't follow you. I'm no banker, lender, or exchanger. I've done some trading as I'm sure many of us have. So what? Crypto is an interesting hobby I've been into for a while. I work in the tech industry and running some public nodes seemed like a fun thing to do. I always figured that spending a bit of my money and time to keep some nodes updated and functional was helpful.

When I saw this emergency fork was going to take place I remembered the fiasco with the DRK forks. No offense against the DRK team, I think they've done some cool stuff. But those masternode forks were a mess by any measure. So with this VRC emergency fork happening I decided to post a message asking for direction. I just want to get my nodes updated properly and make sure they are on the right fork. I also wanted to extend an offer to help if there was anything I could do. I was pretty impressed that Patrick replied back right away.

Meanwhile I get this reply about manipulators and middleman which doesn't make a lot of sense. I scroll through the messages looking for relevant info and all I see are these types of rants. They're all so negative and unhelpful. I understand people are upset about the decision to roll back transactions. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. But jeez, some of this is a little over the top. I suspect that at least some of these rants are an attempt to fuel panic selling when the markets finally open back up. Which would make *those* folks the manipulators, not me.

They said the fork is going to happen and that's probably the best course of action for the coin. My concern is that in the rush to get the fork done there will not be sufficient communications from the dev team and key stakeholders. I run several public VRC nodes with lots of connections. What can I be doing to make sure the fork is successful? Should I shut my nodes down now or leave them running? Do I just need to download/compile/restart when the new code becomes available? Is there anything else I can do to help the network converge onto the correct chain? I hope this doesn't turn into a DRK style fork where the key people think everything is fine but everyone else is seeing random forks all over the place. Some clear communication from the key people would be great, I'm ready to help--just let me know how.