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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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