Dan Mazzini
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

> First, if a majority of miners are on Segsignal/Segwit2x, then their blocks get orphaned and they’re out about $38000 as of this writing. Second, if a majority of miners are not on Segsignal/Segwit2x, their block will create a fork. Both outcomes seem to be pretty terrible for the miner, so it’s hard to see what the motivation would be for a miner to act this way.

$38,000 is nothing compared to the amount of money a miner could make by shorting BTC before doing this, especially at the current almost-ATH levels…