If any of the popular exchanges or online wallet supports the fork than it would be easier and safer to place all my monero and claim the forked coin. But if supported is not announced than I'm out of this.
They have already released news about 2 exchanges suppourting - Ovis & BTC-alpha.
https://twitter.com/monero_vIt's not hitbtc yet, but a good start. These exchanges have HUGE Monero volume (TOP 20).
There is also support from Freewallet.
It's actually safer to claim and hold locally. You cannot 'loose' anything to anyone if you practice safe forking like written on the official MoneroV website -
"How can I safely participate in the fork?
1. Hold XMR locally as you would at the time of the snapshot.
2. Wait for the official open-source MoneroV wallet announcement.
3. Download the MoneroV wallet ONLY from the official website or Github repo.
4. Extract XMV using the official wallet anytime in the future.
NOTE: You can extract the XMV from an empty/altered wallet that had XMR at the time of the snapshot. Meaning you can send your XMR to another wallet prior to extracting XMV."