The Japan Cryptocurrency Business Association has officially announced its plan on how to deal with the possibility of a Bitcoin protocol split on August 1. Thirteen of the groups bitcoin exchange members, including Coincheck, Gmo-Z, Bitbank, and Bitpoint, will suspend bitcoin deposits and withdrawals on August 1 at 00:00 Japan time.
https://news.bitcoin.com/13-japanese-exchanges-suspend-bitcoin-service-august-1But to complete my curiosity that will bitcoin get split in the future? You guys said that from the article about the possibility of the bitcoin split in the future. But the major voters are voting BIP91 to avoid the chain split.
Not only in the japanese exchange but in my local exchange already planned to close its service until the fork will have finished.
True. It's not only in Japanese exchanges, the global exchanges are determined to suspend bitcoin transaction on that date for around 12 hours. But even the major voters looks more inclined to refuse the chain split, everythings will be possible. And this suspend transaction would be like quarantine asset protection.