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Re: Segwit fork and the bitcoin price
by
bamboylee
on 15/06/2017, 17:22:28 UTC
Yeah, well it dropped from 2800 to 2300 just now and it looks like it's going to keep going. I might be wrong no the technical details, but I'm right that the recent investors are panicking.

Maybe you can explain exactly what is happening on August 1 then?

It has always been like that ever since. When the price hits an ATH, a pull back will follow and slowly climb back again to reach a new ATH. It is the profit taking of the whales. And maybe now because of the panic for August 1 bip 148 and the attack on some major exchanges.

On August 1 there will be a soft fork (UASF) which can lead to a coin split if miners do not signal segwit.  But if miners signal segwit, there will be no split and it will just be a normal day. But the FUD it creates may shake the newbies into dumping their coins.