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I'm getting emails all day today from all of the online wallets/exchanges (where I've been registered) saying that if you want to get the BTC cash you better pull your funds out since all of them decide not to deal with the BTC Cash and all saying exactly same thing that they are staying on the same path and don't care that VIaBtC wants that second blockchain. So if you keep your BTC with them alter split you will still have only BTC.
Firstly, and most importantly, as has been said here many times, by many people:
If you have BTC, not in your control, the person who controls it decides what happens to it.--
So ... the online wallets/exchanges are telling you to pull your funds out of them?
That sounds a bit suspicious ... and would mean those online wallets/exchanges are heading for a crash
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Anyway, it's all to do with Bitmain who stated they were making a (tiny) fork of BTC called BTCCash, coz there was a risk on Aug-1 of the Miners being forced to use segwit.
What of course happened, as we all know, is that all the miners switched to BIP91 already, so the morons in the UASF can be totally ignored.
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However, Bitmain has decided to go ahead with their BTCCash hard fork, against what they said they would do.
Yeah you can't trust anything Bitmain says
Here's their Blog on the subject (yes I already read it back when they posted it)
https://blog.bitmain.com/en/what-is-bitcoin-cash/--
What does this mean?
It means that a small % of the miners at Bitmain will be mining another fork of Bitcoin, called BTCCash, that no one else will be allowed to mine, initially.
Best mining solution? Ignore it.
Best Wallet solution? Make sure you control your BTC.
Yes, they are all telling me to pull funds of them but only if I'm interested in having both coins after the split, pretty much they are all saying that if the coins are kept with them they are saying that they won't give you another coin of BTC cash for every BTC coin that I you have.
I've received pretty much the same message from Coinbase, Bitso, BitPanda, Volabit. Here are couple of examples what they wrote me:
BitPanda
If you wish to hold Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, you need to withdraw your Bitcoins from your bitpanda wallet before 01:00 pm CET July 31, 2017. If you are not interested in Bitcoin Cash, no further action is required.
Bitso
Deposits, withdrawals, and trading of ETH, XRP and Pesos will be unaffected.
Bitso will not make BCC balances available. If you are interested in keeping the funds in the new BCC chain, you will need to withdraw your BTCs before July 31st at 8PM.
All of them saying that they won't support the coin BTC Cash. So yeah I don't anyone should worry about the split, the BTC will still be BTC and this new BTC cash will be just added to the long list of Altcoins
. That is of course my opinion after reading up some info from different sources. And yes i think it's the best idea for everyone to pool their BTC into their cold storages for now.