Bitcoin fork support falls below 1%

Bitcoin fork support falls below 1% What happens to your BTC in August?

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Bitcoin heads into August with two fork events on deck — BIP-110's mandatory signaling window and the eCash hard fork at block 964,000 — yet miner support for BIP-110 has never topped 1%, with top pools refusing to signal. With almost no hashrate behind it, the fork poses little threat to the main chain — a wide gap between headline fear and network reality. The calm case dominates the page. As Bibek Raj details, the August 21 split simply copies the chain — every $BTC holder gets an identical 1:1 balance on the new network while original coins stay untouched. The same logic anchors CLYTHERONIX's take: a fork needs miners, developers, exchanges and users, and until those align, the original network stays dominant. To CoinCompass, the real danger isn't the split but the scams around it — fake airdrops and phishing sites hunting holders. A broader angle comes from ren crypto, who ties $BTC's next move to liquidity rotating out of a cracking AI trade — while flagging that reliance on aggressive buyers like Saylor adds concentration risk. If the fork fizzles as miners suggest, will August pass as a non-event, or is complacency exactly what scammers are counting on?

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