Every one is persuming that Bitcoin hard fork result will be same just like ETH had his hardfork and it failed and the price went down to 90% below it and it took so much time to reach back its high price. So Bitcoin will also fell down first and then their will be rise.
Now everyone is just waiting for August 1 till then their wont be any major activity with bitcoin
I agree with your statement, this event only lasted 1 day on 1 August. The most important point of all of this, now all people throughout the world know bitcoin and use them as the easiest transaction in daily life