Last week, some of the largest and leading Bitcoin exchanges and businesses including Coinbase and BitMEX clarified that they are not in favor of Bitcoin Cash and thus, cannot support the hard fork led by ViaBTC.
Coinbase emphasized that it is not willing to support Bitcoin Cash due to its contentious nature, while BitMEX noted that Bitcoin Cash will likely lead to serious security issues.
Bitmain, arguably the most influential mining equipment manufacturer in the industry and the operator of the largest Bitcoin mining pool Antpool, initially introduced the possibility of hard forking the Bitcoin Blockchain in order to create Bitcoin Cash.
But, in its later announcement, Bitmain emphasized that the user-activated hard fork (UAHF) was merely a contingency plan for user-activated soft fork (UASF). Further adding that it did not intend to pursue the execution of a hard fork if the mining community, industry, and users came together and agreed on one activation mechanism to activate the Bitcoin Core development team’s transaction malleability fix and scaling solution Segregated Witness (SegWit).
In the end, the mining community locked in Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP 91, which led to the lock-in of BIP 141 and finalization of SegWit activation.
Source https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-investors-should-not-fear-august-1-chain-split
