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-1 Undoubtedly, the Japanese act wisely, declaring the suspension of trading operations with bitcoins on the exchanges. Better just in case, to be safe, otherwise you can make a lot of mistakes. We all hope that, as on this day, and later nothing serious with bitcoin will happen. But still...
Ok but I thought that we already steered clear from a hark fork so what's the point of suspension of trades if there's not going to be a hard fork at all??