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The days are counting down to the "Segwit2X" rollout, the idea supported in the "New York Agreement" (NYA)[0]. There is a contingency plan in place should the

by apeace 9y ago

The days are counting down to the "Segwit2X" rollout, the idea supported in the "New York Agreement" (NYA)[0]. There is a contingency plan in place should the Core-supported User Activated Soft Fork become activated.[1] Segwit2X has working code, has been tested in beta, and is now in RC.[2] Without commenting on the merits of the different approaches, the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator. To call it a "Civil War" is not an exaggeration. [0] https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-133521fe9a77 https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-conse... [1] https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip148/ https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14... [2] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-July/000145.html https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...

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jerguismi 9y ago
> Without commenting on the merits of the different approaches, the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator. To call it a "Civil War" is not an exaggeration. I totally disagree. The whole discussion is totally overblown when you consider what is actually happening. I would bet 99% of services accepting bitcoin are running core, and the rest 1% maybe with minor patches which doesn't affect consensus code. That is very unlikely to change. Miners can run whatever they want and probably already are running custom code. However for the rest of the network matters if they mine core compatible blocks or not. Some miners can choose to mine 2MB blocks or whatever, but the rest of the network will ignore those, since they are not compatible with core.
yoodenvranx 9y ago
> the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator Is there a good "live-thread" where I can follow the events?
- jerguismi 9y ago
  People follow block signaling a lot. Note however that miners cah signal whatever bit, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually run some specific software. For example "NYA" signal doesn't mean actually much, maybe intention to run segwit2x. The first software was released one day ago, the NYA signaling started way before that. http://coin.dance/blocks http://coin.dance/blocks
- jhall1468 9y ago
  Not a live thread, or interactive much but: https://www.xbt.eu/ https://www.xbt.eu/ Once the BIP91 hits 80%, an as long as it does so before August 1st, this issue is going to go dormant until November.

by apeace 9y ago

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jerguismi 9y ago

> Without commenting on the merits of the different approaches, the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator. To call it a "Civil War" is not an exaggeration. I totally disagree. The whole discussion is totally overblown when you consider what is actually happening. I would bet 99% of services accepting bitcoin are running core, and the rest 1% maybe with minor patches which doesn't affect consensus code. That is very unlikely to change. Miners can run whatever they want and probably already are running custom code. However for the rest of the network matters if they mine core compatible blocks or not. Some miners can choose to mine 2MB blocks or whatever, but the rest of the network will ignore those, since they are not compatible with core.

yoodenvranx 9y ago

> the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator Is there a good "live-thread" where I can follow the events?

jerguismi 9y ago
People follow block signaling a lot. Note however that miners cah signal whatever bit, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they actually run some specific software. For example "NYA" signal doesn't mean actually much, maybe intention to run segwit2x. The first software was released one day ago, the NYA signaling started way before that. http://coin.dance/blocks http://coin.dance/blocks
jhall1468 9y ago
Not a live thread, or interactive much but: https://www.xbt.eu/ https://www.xbt.eu/ Once the BIP91 hits 80%, an as long as it does so before August 1st, this issue is going to go dormant until November.