Whats the current status of the fork?
What fork? are you talking about segwit2x?
It's irrelevant and dead. It was since day 1. Now it seems some scammers have decided to try to bring back a dead horse in order to pump and dump it thanks to newbies thinking segwit2x, or any other fork for that matter, has any relevance or real chances of surpassing Bitcoin.
Don't pay any attention to it, the only think you should do is get the segwit2x coins and dump them. It has 0 impact on actual Bitcoin.
Even taking them may be tricky. If these are scammers like you're saying it's possible the wallets will be bugged. I won't cash out my 2x until it's all 100% confirmed to be safe and tested. I'm not going to risk $14k to get $100.
So it's free coin
If it hits exchanges it will do well
Would I buy it? HELL NO
But I'll take free forks when issued
So if you got coins you got free money today
That's how I see it. I'm always trying to hold at least some of those free coins and sell some to buy myself some treats on their account.
Could you start writing like a normal person and quit pressing enter after each sentence?
I made further reading. Turns out the people behind this fork asked Jeff Garzik access to the segwit2x related accounts, he denied.
A lot of people got confused and thought Jeff Garzik and the rest of the people behind segwit2x last time went back at it and gathered for another attempt, this may have made the big blockers think they have another chance (never had a real chance) and this may have caused the selloff we've seen recently.
This fork is ultimately as irrelevant as it gets, the futures got pumped and dumped already, and there are no wallets.