I read through all of the articles from that link. This is what I take from it, in short -
Bitcoin has to be upgraded in order to grow, block size needs to be increased and the way transactions are stored needs to be made more efficient. Everyone agrees with this, the only disagreement is how the upgrade should take place and how miners can co-ordinate with each-other during the upgrade. The risk is that not enough miners agree on the best route and a split coin is the result. The truth is that nobody will benefit from a split in the coin - because everything with be devalued. Considering the fact that everyone (Or at least the majority) agree on the upgrades, I think it’s much more likely to go ahead, you will have the people in the know agreeing on whatever looks like the best option and everyone else will follow their lead.
Price probably wont go up or down based on the result because most of this stuff is already factored in. Price might even go down just purely because its inflated right now for being in the spotlight and for grabbing everyone's attention.
But in the long term its just going to continue rising - as more and more people start accepting and using bitcoin, its value will go up to meet that demand - thats just simple economics right? And more relevant when it comes to crypto-currencies because the production of new coins is forever diminishing.
