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From The Segwit”2x” beta, review and thoughts by Luke Dashjr
Overall, Segwit2x seems to have one real purpose*: to try to stall Segwit longer. It is a distraction from the upcoming BIP148 softfork, which is already irreversibly deployed to the network. By promoting BIP91 and Segwit2x as an alternative to BIP148, what miners are really doing is another power grab to try to take back their veto, which has no purpose other than to be used by Bitmain to block the whole thing at the last minute. If too little of the economy has upgraded to BIP148 in time for August, it gives Bitmain the opport…