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On July 30, I turned in some BTC for Au, concerned a bit that the BTC community might screw up with the Aug 1 fork.

Provident Metals had stopped taking Bitcoin as payment!  That was a shock, so I had to open an account with jmbullion.com who still did.  I have not checked back with Provident to see if they have changed their minds, but for whatever reason they stopped taking BTC, thus lowering somewhat BTC fungibility....

These stupid forks are aggravating to me (and I am sure to millions of others).  The BTC community needs to shape up, else some will leave...

I'm still in BTC, only selling off some 15% of my stash.  But, even with the apparent success of SegWit(2x?), BTC is in danger of bringing itself down, without .gov having to lift a finger.