Quote from: pawel7777 on June 20, 2017, 10:39:04 AM

Quote from: Doofus on June 20, 2017, 06:51:53 AM

https://coin.dance/blocks 76% blocks mined today support segwit2X
bitmain is raising an ICO to make sure they can buy enough hashrate to make sure a hard fork. But it seems that miners are supporting the compromise approach segwit2X now.

Yeah, looks like segwit2x is going to happen. Bitmain is also in favour of it, the hardfork idea was their plan B (if segwit2x fails and UASF gets traction).

What ICO are you referring to?? If you mean Giga Watt, that's a scam:

https://blog.bitmain.com/en/gigawatt-infringement-announcement/

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We have never authorized and will not authorize Giga Watt as our official hosting facility or our service center in the USA. We have never supported and will not support Giga Watts ICO. We have never authorized and will not authorize Giga Watt to use our BITMAIN trademark in any circumstances. Mr. WU Jihan has never been and will not be a member of Giga Watt team.

Yeah, Segwit2x is going to happen, Segwit would be activated and then three months down the lane hardfork is coming, that was Bitmain's plan A. The August chain split is just getting postponed for another three months. And once hard-forking is done, it would force the entire network to upgrade to the new consensus rules, there is no backwards compatibility, upgrade or just get kicked out of the bitcoin network.

Obviously in terms of the size of bitcoin network, a hard-forking would definitely have a deep impact. Guess there is no use putting hope on BIP148 to activate Segwit as a soft fork.

I guess what Vitalik Buterin is to ETH, Bitmain/Jihan Wu is becoming to bitcoin.