It looks like some people must trade both coins with more volume on the other one. I don't really know why. There have been various crypto airdrops and I benefited from some, but you need to hear it through official channels.
I've heard of some school systems being taken offline, but then I also saw people saying there was no immediate risk. It's not had any real impact on me.
That certainly seems like a probability. We had one of our major sites that was offline as they were updating their servers. I'm in the process of working some stuff out with our website vendor right now.