As we know, bitcoin is mooning, but the scaling situation is still not solved. The so called "Barry agreement" has already been broken, with Roger Ver, Jihad Wu, and some other people involved disagreeing between them:
This is what happens when you don't bring Core developers to the agreement, corporate idiots don't know the technical details and just make a mess. Then again this could have been what some wanted (just keep delaying it)
Ideally, there should be an agreement with a segwit activation through soft fork and a 2MB hard fork later, developed by Core to avoid any nonsense. Unfortunately, this seems unlikely.
Then there's UASF, which will cause a clusterfuck unless snowball effect kicks in and the legacy chain gets reorg'd. If not then we'll have 2 coins listed in (some) exchanges for X amount of time.
In order for UASF to work, the big whales would need to dump legacy for UASF coins. It would also be needed that big exchanges list it. August 1 is around the corner and there isn't a single big exchange making any statement. If UASF works, then great, but as of right now im very skeptical, and the compromise option remains the best, as long as it's developed by Core, because no one is going to download software that is not Core-approved.
My question is, what are the big bitcoin whales like Mircea Popescu or Bruce Wagner thinking about the current situation? what are they planning to do? If I had billions in bitcoin, I would be paying close attention. I checked Mircea's blog, and he hasn't posted anything bitcoin related for ages, he just posts his usual weird stuff.
If anyone has some info then let us know.
So far, im aware of this 40,000 BTC whale showing UASF support:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6d2tp1/i_am_the_bearwhale_uasf_now/