Is there any BTC fork in end of 2017? What is the reason of BTC is going to hit 10,000 USD so rapidly?
As far as a fork is concerned, there is a thread on altcoin section about Bitcoin Silver, another scam coin, nothing known about developers, no website, no github links, just that yet another fork, specifically snapshot coin
might happen in December. Just a cash grab, a joke in the name of making Bitcoin mining decentralized again and yet again.
As far as the rapid increase in Bitcoin price is concerned, one of the reasons is, the world's largest futures exchange, CME is expected to launch bitcoin futures in the second week of December.
There are plenty of bitcoin forks coming, forget about end of the year, this is only the beginning. I predict hundreds of bitcoin forks coming through 2018, like a resurgence of the altcoin boom but in bitcoin fork form.
Overall, dont stress over it, just claim the free coins as they come, but please, do so in a separate computer. Never install altcoin software in the same computer that you are running a node where you process transactions, and let alone a computer where you are holding coins at (and by altcoin software I mean bitcoin forks included obviously)