Counting Days Before the New Hard Fork.
Everything you need to know about SegWit2xSegWit2x
Who is against the activation of SegWit2x, is Bitcoin Gold associated with it and how should those who have bitcoins prepare? We tell you everything.
A few months ago, following some extensive debates, SegWit, an updated bitcoin protocol (Bitcoin) was initiated. As a result of these debates, an alternative Bitcoin Cash cryptocurrency (Bitcoin.Cash) was created as an opposition to SegWit. We are now on the threshold of another split and that is SegWit2x.
The SegWit protocol was made under one condition: an increase in the block size within three months, meaning the hard fork. The miners, who did not support SegWit in the beginning, activated it under the New York Agreement (NYA) terms.
This agreement is also identified as the Silbert Agreement or the DCG Agreement called after its initiator, Barry Silbert, the founder of Digital Currency Group. Many prominent players in the cryptocurrency market, including the Bitmain Mining Company, the Coinbase exchange, and the BitPay payment system were attracted by Silbert….