A big event on August 1 lies in store for Bitcoin. Reports indicate that, on this date, Bitcoin miners plan to implement a protocol upgrade proposal called BIP148 in a bid to end a stalemate among various parties regarding the block size debate – a wide-ranging debate which also includes calls to increase transactions and speed up their completion times on the network. Subsequently, transaction fees for Bitcoin are currently high amid the risk of a possible chain split or fork. A chain split, in turn, could result in Bitcoin Wallets emptying overnight on August 1 because some providers may not be on the new chain.
https://hackernoon.com/casual-bitcoin-users-you-need-to-know-about-aug-1st-d568e07418cb
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Well, the possibly split chance is lowering drastically during the last few days. I believe more than 80% of nodes now have reached consensus. With over a month left we can almost be sure that there will be no split on August 1st.
It is not clear if that will happen. Segwit2x fork has already 80% hash support and put 27 july as target date for activating SegWit.