Additionally, one company has elected to just close its platform as it was announced that Chinese mining pool operator ViaBTC will close its newly started up exchange launched back in May. (cryptoninjas.net)
On August 1, ViaBTC intends to suspend withdrawals so that it can begin listing actual Bitcoin Cash tokens, and other mining pool operators have said they will use the term Bitcoin Cash and the BCC ticker symbol to differentiate it from bitcoin, generally represented by the ticker symbol BTC. (coindesk.com)
In remarks, Haipo Yang and Jiang Zhuoer, two major mining pool operators, said they didn't expect the change to be contentious. (coindesk.com)