Is the SegWit coming or what? Everyone says different things
probably yes, but it's tricky, because it's a combination of segwith which require 95% and 2mb hard fork, and from my understanding some miners don't like that the hard fork it's done after the activation in segwit2x...
then you have the UASF users that don't like miners, and don't like the fact that miners are agianst the second part of activation of segwit2x, the hard fork of 2mb, than the core team which is not pro all this
ah soap opera indded
Again bitcoin core could just block the hardfork yet correct?
This compromise will just remove the segregated witness roadblock.
I just can't see core rolling over on this and giving all this future power
On development to the miners. Cave from their view on decentralization and
If they believe themselves, still believe a hard fork is dangerous and impractical.
It will likely be another year of FUD, if they can't even agree to meet in person.
Imho. Damn well hope I'm dead wrong.
While this appears to be a significant compromise from the miners (it is - they are giving in to the segwit pressure), this is really nothing more than trying to put in the place the Hong Kong agreement that was worked out 18 months ago and, had it been followed in good faith, would be COMPLETELY activated at this point.
As soon as BTC1 is released, the miners will run it, and immediately signal support for SW2X; it will only be a short matter of time after that that SW itself will fully activate (see
https://medium.com/@jimmysong/segwit2x-what-you-need-to-know-b747e6326266).
It would be really sad if after all this Core still doesn't work with what is clearly most of the community. 90%+ of mining power as well as all the other Bitcoin company signatories of the New York Agreement.
BTC1 will move ahead with implementing the block size increase, and then it would be up to Core to effect the network split by not working on it. So yes, core could block the 2MB blocksize, but they would definitely be in the minority at that point. And also be clearly demonstrating their bad faith and failure to support much (most?) of the Bitcoin community.