Interesting, so a fork is coming ... now, i read your post, and i am a noob with this techy things, but i do have a question, which some might think is kind of stupid, but still .... Someone once told me there are no stupid questions, only ridiculous answers, so here i go ... In laymen's terms of a not native english speaker, so bear with me.

Because of a certain tax loophole, i have been looking for a starting project to get into earning trough mining etc ...

So, to my understanding, a hard fork means another project running on the same (but altered) blockchain, so for this new project not to become too decentralized, you need nodes ... am i right, or is my thinking already going in the wrong direction? now, if i have an old mac around, i can run a node on it? and then earn? Or do i need to run one of those insane mining rigs based on gpu’s? To earn?