Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st
by jpatokal on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:01AM
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The opposing and (IMHO) ultimately greater pressure is that it's also in miners' best interest to keep Bitcoin alive and successful. It took a long time to hammer out SegWit2x and it's still not certain that it's going to work.
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Re:Bitcoin – Potential Network Disruption on July 31st
by rothbardrand on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:55AM
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You would think so, but I think that they think they have enough hash power to take over the whole thing. They may be right. They are clearly making a power grab and opposing Segwit2X: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...
Segwit2X would activate effectively Bip148, though it was originally a proposal to use a different mechanism it is acceptable enough that Core is happy to have segwit activated that way.