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Topic: How are you preparing yourself for the 1st of August? (Read 1133 times)

sr. member
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Merit: 250
Not really, but since many few days, I started reading various articles and also got some suggestions. I was suggested to have my Private keys to myself.
Till now I haven't took any further action, but I am thinking to secure my bitcoins. Though I won't stop to acquire and still continue to hold.
sr. member
Activity: 644
Merit: 299
As far as I am concerned, the most important thing which I have done so far is to move my coins to a desktop wallet, precisely Exodus which gave me access to my private key. I don't care if bitcoin's price comes down as a result of any fork, but I ain't moving to any altcoin cause that would be the biggest mistake of a lifetime. But whatever will happen, we all don't know anyway and I hope things get better cause I am sure that is what most of us wants. Once we remove the fear, Bitcoin will always be at the top of its game, fork or not!
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1012
I don't see why the 1st of August will require special preparation... Maybe accumulate a bit of fiat in order to buy more coins in a speculative possible dip after we scale? Other than that I see no reason to do specific preparation for anything...
sr. member
Activity: 630
Merit: 272
I actually am not preparing anything for August 1, if the price drops then I'm sure it'll increase its value back again and stabilize. So whatever happens this first of August, I'm still holding on to my bitcoins.
If before August 1 will actually start a panic and people will sell their bitcoins, I will try to buy as many coins as possible at the lowest price. I believe in bitcoin and I am sure that he'll regain its value and price will even grow. Just whales buying coins alarmists.
sr. member
Activity: 700
Merit: 251
Well for me, i'm keeping my bitcoin. Have no intention to sell or change them to any altcoin though.
But if i need to do that, i'll prefer change my btc to usd. But i think that won't happen. Because i believe in bitcoin, and don't want to regret about it later if i act recklessly by selling them.
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1000
95% of my bitcoin hodlings are off exchanges. No matter what happens, I plan on staying calm and not panicking or doing anything rash with my bitcoins.
hero member
Activity: 2744
Merit: 541
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The price of bitcoin will really take a hard hit if others will follow op's move to dump bitcoin for alt-coin. But if we do not dump, just move our coins into a secure wallet where we control the private key, it will be fine. We do not have to panic because hard fork may not even happen.
that's the right move that we should take, as long as we do still have the numbers dropping the value won't be that easy don't let the whales to grab the opportunity of buying your dumped coins, whatever happens just keep holding and for sure it will recover and bounce back much stronger.
legendary
Activity: 1204
Merit: 1028
Check the news: August 1st is no longer relevant, it will be another regular day in the land of bitcoin, it is a non event because segwit is going in before august 1st since miners agreed on the segwit2x thing. It's not ideal, but we get segwit anyway, and there will be no hardfork later on most likely, because no one will run non-Core approved software, and those that do will meet bankruptcy, so stay calm, but it's always good practice to store your coins in your local wallet, never on the exchanges, remember that.
sr. member
Activity: 420
Merit: 250
I actually am not preparing anything for August 1, if the price drops then I'm sure it'll increase its value back again and stabilize. So whatever happens this first of August, I'm still holding on to my bitcoins.
legendary
Activity: 1904
Merit: 1074
Do read this post on the Important Ann section:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1836611.new#new

The gist of it: nothing to worry about as long as you're in complete control of your Bitcoins. Not sure what that means? The post will tell you what to do.

Just wait it out and see what will become the dominant coin. { If it splits } You will have the same amount of coins on both chains, depending on how the

coin split will happen. I will sit back and see how it plays out.... my coins are safe in cold storage and I have full control over what will happen once the

coin splits. Moving everything to Alt coins will be stupid... Alt coins will come down hard, if Bitcoin fails.  Huh
hero member
Activity: 1176
Merit: 509
I will do nothing. I will just continue what I'm currently doing. Join signature campaigns, earn bitcoin, then buy some altcoins for long term profit. those are the things that I usually do. If ever bitcoin price will go down, there's still some time till it goes up again.
hero member
Activity: 1176
Merit: 509
I will do nothing. I will just continue what I'm currently doing. Join signature campaigns, earn bitcoin, then buy some altcoins for long term profit. those are the things that I usually do. If ever bitcoin price will go down, there's still some time till it goes up again.
hero member
Activity: 1148
Merit: 504
The price of bitcoin will really take a hard hit if others will follow op's move to dump bitcoin for alt-coin. But if we do not dump, just move our coins into a secure wallet where we control the private key, it will be fine. We do not have to panic because hard fork may not even happen.
hero member
Activity: 774
Merit: 500
Look ARROUND!
Dont ever fear that day of bitcoin hard fork event,i have read some thoughts about it that it may help bitcoin community to get better and just a small percent on causing negative effects on bitcoins,but still different things may happen so we better get prepared
This. I am just trying to build up the amount of Bitcoins that I have, it doesn't matter if the price of Bitcoin loses it's value at least I would have more Bitcoin when that happens. The price is very likely to pump during that time since there's a bunch of people interested in it.
legendary
Activity: 3038
Merit: 2162
Hi everyone.

So with the date getting closer, everyone is talking about BIP148, Segwit, Fard Hork and what not... I here some say to 'not trade few days before and few days after to let things settle down'.

Some say they'll sell their BTC before that date.

I was thinking to exchange my BTC with some other Altcoin, but I'm not sure which. Speculating only, if you were to exchange your BTC to some other coin because of that BTC split, what would you exchange for and why?

I'm thinking of exchanging to Ripple, but also I have my eye on IOTA, since I believe it will be the next big thing after Bitcoin.

Aside form BTC, I'm invested in other 9 coins. Small time investments.


I think the best approach to Auguest 1st is to hedge your coins and be prepared for everything. First, if you are really afraid of losing money, because it's some very important savings, you should sell some portion of your cryptocurrencies and only leave what you can afford to lose. If you are ready to take risks in order to take bigger profits, you should send all your Bitcoins to a wallet that allows you to control your private keys. Alternatively you can try to keep your coins on exchange and try to get some bring profits during giant volatility during the fork. You may also want to prepare yourself for situation when Bitcoin crashes but alts surge, so invest 5-10% (or more) in top altcoins like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin.
sr. member
Activity: 546
Merit: 261
If you have all your bitcoin in your personal wallet,there is nothing to worry about,keep hodl and wait
But if it's in the wallet exchange,go convert to some alt or straight to fiat
sr. member
Activity: 910
Merit: 252
I could suggest the quote 'not trade few days before and few days after to let things settle down' then you can take decision . alt only speculation . If your holding bitcoin some convert to alt some keep it as a original form
full member
Activity: 378
Merit: 101
Hi everyone.

So with the date getting closer, everyone is talking about BIP148, Segwit, Fard Hork and what not... I here some say to 'not trade few days before and few days after to let things settle down'.

Some say they'll sell their BTC before that date.

I was thinking to exchange my BTC with some other Altcoin, but I'm not sure which. Speculating only, if you were to exchange your BTC to some other coin because of that BTC split, what would you exchange for and why?

I'm thinking of exchanging to Ripple, but also I have my eye on IOTA, since I believe it will be the next big thing after Bitcoin.

Aside form BTC, I'm invested in other 9 coins. Small time investments.


I wouldnt exchange my BTC to ALT. However I would move my coins from exchanges to a hard wallet or desktop wallet. Then just sit and wait. I am not planning any purchases 2days before and 2days after. My plan is just to sit tight, watch the markets and news.
hero member
Activity: 714
Merit: 501
in my opinion anything that is said at this point is going to be pure guess because we don't know how things will be like by then. but i will probably transfer all my bitcoins from exchanges to my cold storage and keep them there during that period of time to decide what to do afterwards.

i am trading altcoins which i will pause but i will probably continue holding LTC because it has SegWit and it is growing fast.

other altcoins like ether that i had are already dumped. i don't want to risk getting caught under another ether blockchain fail with my transactions stuck!
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Stay in control of your BTCs and hodl, no reason to worry
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