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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by modeless on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:12PM (#15936086)
Segwit2x was an initiative to increase the block size. It only required replacing Bitcoin Core because Bitcoin Core refused to merge a block size increase. If they had agreed to merge a block size increase, then btc1 would not have been necessary.
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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by xorcist on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:35AM (#15938353)
That narrative is a bit tiresome, since it's so obviously false.

The Bitcoin developers (not "Bitcoin Core") had just implemented a block size increase after years of discussion.

The segwit2x intiative didn't take part in this. They didn't bother even writing a specification, let alone a proposal or take it through public discussion.

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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by smokeyj on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:47PM (#15937758)
Are you Luke JR?
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Re:BitPay Will Process Payments on Multiple Blockchains, Sta... by Frogolocalypse on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:52PM (#15937777)
No. For the record his name is Luke Dashjr. He's a bitcoin developer, as you probably know.
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