If you have bitcoin right now you can make an extra $292.86 per coin. Bitmain is a bitcoin mining company in China and they have made "Bitcoin cash". If you have 1 bitcoin then you have 1 bitcoin cash (BCH)
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/ the price of bch is $292 currently.
It takes some knowledge to split the BCH away from the BTC. If you have your btc sitting on an exchange you're going to want to transfer it to an
https://electrum.org/ wallet. When you have bitcoin sitting on an exchange it is not a guarantee that exchange will give you BCH tokens unless they specifically say it. Coinbase for instance will not credit you.
I can provide details on how to extract bitcoin cash (BCH) from your electrum or bitcoin-qt (bitcoin core) wallet. I am not looking for any payment I just wanted you to all be aware that if you have bitcoin sitting around you're going to be losing $292 per coin if you don't split your BCH away from your BTC.
Very easy step by step instructions can be found here:
Splitting your BTC and BCC, the OP_RETURN way | CoinFlip which was made by the CTO of coinflip chicago named Alan. Don't be overwhelmed, it's simple it just looks complicated. Really it's just time consuming.
I won't get into specifics on the schematics of why this is all happening just know that it is by 12:30pm UTC august 1st. Happy UASF Eve!