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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: BIP 148/149 UASF and SegWit
by
itooam
on 19/06/2017, 05:24:51 UTC
I have edited my response (2-up), effectively saying I was wrong with hard fork date for segwit2x (I had assumed the hard fork was simultaneous put live with segwit activation).   Instead, segwit will be activated when/if sufficient miner votes made. However, the hardfolk will be activated either September 21st or 3 months after this.  As explained by "jgarzik":
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The prediction is that miners activate rapidly, therefore, block 485218 (BIP102_FORK_MIN_HEIGHT) becomes the hard fork point. "+3 months" is the fallback safety measure, in case activation is slower than predicted.
See this thread for further details: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6i16gl/psa_how_segwit2x_actually_works/
(definitely worth a read if any of you are concerned by this!)