Has anyone been following core devs response to this? Are we gonna see btc1 merged into core? Do I need to update my node (I think not since I'm not mining with it)?
this is what i understand and for that i say we don't need a merge for now:
BTC1 or SegWit2x has 3 parts:
1. signalling bit 4 (BIP91) and then if it was locked in, reject any blocks that are not signalling. since this was nearly all of the blocks and also because of 2 is happening right now, i don't see why we even need this.
2. signalling bit 1 (BIP141) which is happening now again with almost all of the miners. and this is already in bitcoin core and nodes are seeing this part already. again no need to merge anything.
3. (this is why i said not for now) the 2 MB hard fork part. and that is not happening for a couple of months and until that day and until we know how much of hash power is really going for it and a lot of other things, there is no need to merge anything.