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.
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.
On January 1, 2015, cloud mining company and
GHash.IO mining pool operator CEX.IO announced that it was temporarily suspending cloud mining operations due to the bitcoin price drop.
He emphasized that it will most likely cause major problems for BitcoinCash because most of its mining activities are conducted by
Chinese mining pool operators.
At the moment there is not need to worry, the problem has mostly been resolved for the time being by the developers and
mining pool operators.
In what is perhaps best described as an emergency meeting, once again in Hong Kong, several Bitcoin Core contributors,
mining pool operators and other Bitcoin industry members met to discuss the scaling issue.
Pacia suggested that a soft fork would be a governance issue given that «just a few developers and
mining pool operators» would effectively be able to determine how the protocol is changed.
And according (translation) to at least one
mining pool operator, BTC.TOP's Jiang Zhuo'er, this is intentional.
Rather, as
a mining pool operator, ViaBTC will enable users in its pool to mine the asset if they choose.