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Re:The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November by awemany on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:34AM (#15423374)
> SegWit2x is basically the mining faction stealing the network away from the Core development group

That language is very revealing: It never belonged to 'the Core development group' in the first place.

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Re:The Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Coming in Mid-November by kbaker on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:59PM (#15424836)
That is technically true, but the Core group has been stewarding Satoshi's original client since the genesis block. So a switch to another code base (even if it is a semi-recent code fork) is still a major event in Bitcoin's history.
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