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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitmain announces plan to create altcoin if BIP148 succeeds
by
intense
on 14/06/2017, 14:24:06 UTC
Majority hashrate + original blockchain = Bitcoin

This isn't going to be an altcoin, it's going to be the bitcoin we should have had 3 years ago before the push for off chain transactions became paramount at the detriment of all other improvements. And the absolute best part of this is:

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Later, we will support the activation of SegWit on the UAHF chain if there is no patent risk associated with SegWit and if the arbitrary discount rate of witness data segment is removed.

All the pro's of segwit as well as larger blocks and lower fees, and even better this helps decentralisation as the mempool will shrink back down allowing nodes to get by on less ram.