Someone from Reddit commented - Bitcoin's GREAT decentralized consensus decide by 6 developers who talked the market up from $500 to $7500.
Epic case study of Centralized Decentralized Blockchain Open Source Technology
This is shady i feel like a huge market manipulation today.
But the segwit2x cowntdown still on.
Donot know what that means
Better say I am no expert. I really can't tell. The news seems genuine as it is reported in all mainstream media. If they play tricks this way, then there will be no more trust about these Bitcoin thing.
Open source means everyone can start a fork. As long as the miners and trading exchanges collude and proceed with a group of new developers, they may again announce on the 14 Nov:
Segwit2x Is On Track