BTC is now the base.
Most of the exchanges have BTC as prime currency to trade with.
If BTC will have the hard fork, means BTC will sink.
Is that means that all exchanges will now put ETH as prime coin to trade with?
Maybe because ETH is widely used by bounty campaigners for their token. ETH may have a potential to pass BTC when btc go down. Let's see till august 1 what will happen .
With bitcoins transaction fee issues and confirmation times, I would not be surprised to see Ethereum volume to increase dramatically. ETH will be the new king.