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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by jerguismi on Monday July 17, 2017 @12:59PM (#14790347)
All those claiming that coinbase is planning to run segwit2x, please link to a statement provided by a representative of that company. I think you are just talking bullshit.
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by pandemicsyn on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:08PM (#14790949)
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about bitcoin or if segwit2x is even the same as segwit...But a quick google for "coinbase segwit" shows this tweet from the Coinbase CEO - https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/81725801561932185...
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by mhluongo on Monday July 17, 2017 @09:15PM (#14793664)
That's from before the New York agreement (SegWit2x) so it's not definitive. In fact many who explicitly don't support SegWit2x support plain SegWit.
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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by eganist on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:20PM (#14790553)
https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse...

The digital currency group (dcg.co) includes Coinbase in its portfolio.

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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by jerguismi on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:27PM (#14790612)
That agreement seems very general, doesn't indicate that the participants will run specific code. Segwit2x client didn't even exist at that time, first release was yesterday.

People are just making this bullshit up.

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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by mhluongo on Monday July 17, 2017 @01:42PM (#14790738)
Not making it up, talking to real people in the space.

You can also check out the SegWit2x mailing list archive [0] for companies actively testing SegWit2x. From there I've seen BitGo, Blockchain, Bloq, OB1 (Open Bazaar), Purse.. these are significant companies in the Bitcoin economy.

[0] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...

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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by jerguismi on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:02PM (#14790892)
> companies actively testing SegWit2x

Testing is very different from actually running it in production. Companies test out a lot of different things. I think with consensus code companies will be very careful and if they plan to do something regarding that, they will announce it clearly, not in some half-assed wiki site or medium post.

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Re:Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War as It Enters a Critical Month by mhluongo on Monday July 17, 2017 @02:12PM (#14790977)
> some half-assed wiki or medium post

That's... you're woefully out of touch with how people communicate in this space.

Show me where on these companies' sites it says "We run 0.14.2 of the reference client, with this patch set, and don't plan to ever change"?

Anyway, we'll see what happens in the next two weeks I guess. I'm expecting we lock-in SegWit via the SegWit2x client and then have another debate in a few months about the hard fork. Hoping not too many sw2x supporters get cold feet in the meantime.

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