Quote from: REF on July 17, 2017, 11:17:41 PM

@Mad7Scientist
Good job gathering all of this information. This is easier to read and more condensed then the coverage provided by most of the bitcoin news blogs.

Quote from: Mad7Scientist on July 17, 2017, 12:06:55 AM

All users of bitcoin will have to change their software or continue using the classic wallet, but the classic wallet will be stalled and it will take ages to confirm a transaction because most of the mining power left and because it takes a long time for difficulty to adjust back down to 10 minute blocks.

The old client will still work but if the network moves with the hard fork no one will accept transactions from the old folk. You will have to update your client in order to send or receive transaction that the rest of the network accepts.

Yes I thought that was implied but I edited that information in the post in case anyone doesn't understand that using the classic non SegWit2x network (after the hard fork) will be a completely different network with completely separate coins.

edit: Another thing is that I can't seem to figure out what triggers SegWit2x. Someone said that it triggers at 80% of the bit 4 flag, but someone else said that there are multiple triggers for it. Right now Bit 4 is signaling around 50% for SegWit2x so if it activated now it would do a soft fork and have the potential of winning the soft fork.