Great thread... thanks for all the valuable information.
One question.. I have been lead to believe that if I on on Poloniex and have placed all my bitcoin on altcoins... and remove all sell orders.. just during the 12 hours before and some time after August 1.. I should be ok keeping my Poloniex account funded with coin. I'm just not sure. Any suggestions?
Nothing will happen to the altcoins. Except that depending on what happens to BTC, the price of altcoins could drastrically change.
So there is no saying how much you will gain or lose with this strategy.
What about altcoins that are running on BTC like Factom.