I use a company in the Netherlands called Bitonic to trade bitcoins to euros and vice versa. They have been around for a long time and have a great service. They even have their own Exchange. (BL3P.eu)
On the 20th of July, they released a news bulletin saying they would stop trading BTC around August 1st until all the unrest around BTC is solved.
But today they updated the bulletin saying that a split in the BTC network has been reduced so much that they won't stop trading/selling.
That sounds pretty positive to me. And I hope they are right I want this unrest gone too.
UPDATE 24-07-2017 10:00: The risk of a split in the bitcoin network seems to be such that we are no longer planning to stop the trade in Bitcoin. Of course, the circumstances can still force us to review this decision and we will immediately inform you, but for now we do not see any reason to do so.
Source: https://bitonic.nl/en/news/142/update-possible-disruption-bitcoin-network
I did hear about a new upcoming coin called Bitcoin Cash. It will be a split from Bitcoin. With 8mb blocks and no Segwit. It's even tradable on an exchange even before it exists. Talking about speculation!
But then again I never thought ETC would have any merit and that's trading for $13 now. But that was created after a fork! This is before.
If you have any BTC going into the fork you will automatically also have Bitcoin Cash. Make sure you know the private key of your wallet. I have all my BTC local not on an exchange until this is over.
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