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Some of the well known trading platforms and look at the price and I find it quite exciting:

Kraken - $2,906.105
Bitfinex - $2,850.00
Gemini - $2838.08

Bitcoin may break ATH before the fork. ;D. What do you think that influenced this price gain prior to the "feared" Aug 1?

Edit:

Cex - $2860.28
BitMex - $2862.4

The market is now finally ignoring what can be on August 1 and we already know what can happen so nothing is really surprising anymore. It is actually good thing that BitcoinCash was announced days ago and not within the 3-day period before August 1. In fact, I read a post here in the forum that there can be some people who bought their Bitcoin so they can have some free BitcoinCash (BCH) and in that case it is BCH helping push the value of Bitcoin.

This is just another big example of how Bitcoin can be so unpredictable. Sometimes we anticipate for it to fall but eventually the story is that it can be rising. It happened to me and I did regret listening to my feeling because it never came true but the opposite. Oh well, my dear Bitcoin you always defied my fear and speculation.

We just have to trust Bitcoin do its own thing and just HODL whatever amount we have because the biggest ride of its existence is still coming.

I, too, succumbed to the general hysteria and sold some of my coins. But I was hoping that on August 1-2 the price would be low and I could buy even more bitcoins. Now I see that the price goes up. This means that my guesses were wrong.

i think parte of the raise is due to free bitcoin cash distributed to bitcoin holders at the time of the split. i personally bought some for this reason even i don't know there will be a massive dump of bitcoin cash

yes absolutely because of this who is gonna miss this opportunity ? nobody.
having Bitcoin in our cold storage/website supporting Bitcoin Cash we can easily get Bitcoin Cash for free based on total our Bitcoin.
It might be an altcoin,but based on market prediction it will be traded at $100 or even more than that.
Just HOLDING our Bitcoin,we can profitting in few days later.

Massive dump for Bitcoin Cash will happen because even right now many people trying to pump it,but not a small people trying to dump it.
i even can see it on youtube.com,their tittle 'watch me dumping my Bitcoin Cash Live'

And for Bitcoin,it may be down but it will not go down that deep because the activating of segwit gave us a new hope for Cryptoworld

Now no need to worry about the issue behind the effect of bitcoin on August 1st. Now we can bitcoin as same as you have done earlier. I except bitcoin price will reach to next peak value in this Christmas itself.