BITCOIN HARD FORK: OUR POSITION - 27 JUL 2017
We would like to take this opportunity to let our customers know our plans for the upcoming weeks as we navigate any potential disruptions on the Bitcoin (BTC) network. As always, our focus will continue to be on the safety of our customers and their funds.
In the event of a User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) on 1 August or thereafter, it is important to clarify that Bitstamp would not be in a position to support Bitcoin Cash (BCC), the coin associated with the Bitcoin Cash proposal. In Bitstamp’s view, BCC is an alt-coin and the decision to list BCC tokens remains at our sole discretion at all times.
If Bitstamp chooses to list BCC, we would decide at our own discretion on what course of action to take with balances deriving from the hard fork. BCC would also be subject to the same due diligence processes as for any other alt-coin, which requires time and careful planning. For this reason, Bitstamp is not in a position to support BCC, nor will Bitstamp be liable for any BCC sent to Bitstamp.
As always, the safety of our customers’ funds remains our number one priority. To this end, as a security precaution, we will be disabling bitcoin deposits and withdrawals on 31 July 2017 at 23:00 hrs UTC to ensure that all BTC funds stored at Bitstamp remain secure. Trading will remain unaffected throughout. Deposits and withdrawals will be resumed only when we deem it safe and prudent to do so.
We will leave it to our customers to decide whether to withdraw their BTC funds from Bitstamp prior to this cut-off date if they would like to access BCC or any other hard fork, and Bitstamp shall not be held liable for any consequences of that decision, from neither a financial, operational nor regulatory standpoint.
To be clear, Bitstamp has no favored outcome to the resolution of the bitcoin scaling issue. Our sole focus is on our customers and their best interests. As such, we are continuing to monitor developments closely.
Please check our Twitter feed, Facebook page and website for the latest news, updates and developments.
Best,
The Bitstamp team
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Thank You!
"Political Correctness" has not ever been one of my strong points, but I always manage to get the message across somehow :)
Just getting the news out Bro and if you have issue with that then I would suggest you examine yourself. A mirror or reflection of another's work is nothing more than that alone...
Example: If I had heard the little boy who cried Wolf, when there actually was a Wolf coming and I shared that. Would it fall under the same rhetoric you promote in your reply?
I just wonder how many people would have lost their shares in BCC if I hadn't shared that post from Coinbase? The Welfare of the People always comes before "jurisprudence"...
to me this looks more like a desperate attempt to make a short term profit out of thin air. possibly to cover some losses (dare i say the cost of spam attacks). or even to start selling some mining equipment to new miners since the new chain may have lower hashrate and a lower difficulty with one of their pulls on github.
otherwise anybody in this world knows very well that when you fork like this with little support your chain is doomed for a thousand different reasons. and we can see price of it is falling already and the "airdrop tokens" are not released yet!
All great points you have there, you have a good head on your shoulders @chris77d you might want to make your own article addressing some of the same?
For me, I am going to abandon the whole BlockChain mess completely until after everything is done and has had time to settle. Then after careful scrutiny I will step back in very cautiously, checking for traps and distractions which might try to rip a person off.