Thanks for the reply, I umm, think, maybe, that's a little more clear....
No, not really, I'm still confused. Anyone want to point the resident crypto-idiot in the right direction to catch up and read on this fork? I honestly have no idea how you guys with lives of your own actually manage to keep up with everything.
It is not as hard as you might think if you already understand how Bitcoin works. You can read this 3 part article
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-lightning-network-part-building-a-bidirectional-payment-channel-1464710791/ . You can easily learn about it in a day.