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Two Bitcoin Forks Are Coming in August, and This Time the Whales Are Wall Street

Bitcoin is about to do something it has not done in years: split. Twice, in the same month. One is a contested soft fork that could accidentally break the chain in two. The other is a planned hard fork that will hand every holder a brand new coin.

But the detail that makes August 2026 genuinely different from every fork war before it is who owns Bitcoin now. In 2017 the fights were settled by retail holders with their own keys.

Today, ETFs, corporate treasuries and custodians sit on more than two million BTC, and most of them have already decided to want nothing to do with any of this.

Let me walk you through what is actually happening, because the coverage has been either terrifying or dismissive, and the truth is more interesting than both. First, what a fork even is A fork is a change to Bitcoin’s rules, and there are two kinds.

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