Is Segwit2x a big deal?

“During the month of November 2017, approximately 90 days after the activation of Segregated Witnesses in the Bitcoin blockchain, a block between 1MB and 2MB in size will be generated by Bitcoin miners in a move to increase network capacity. At this point it is expected that more than 90% of the computational capacity that secures the Bitcoin network will carry on mining on top of this large block.
The upgrade to 2MB blocks has been agreed first during the Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus in Hong-Kong on February 2016, and then ratified by the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement in New York on May 2017. These agreements stipulate the activation of Segregated Witness support and an increase of the maximum base block size from 1MB to 2MB.” — Segwit2x.github.io

Segwit2x argument is a power game, a stupid one if I may add, I don’t think that increasing the blocksize to 2mb is a bad thing, it will bring us lower fees, which is good right?

Don’t get me wrong I was a strong Segwit supporter on Litecoin and then Bitcoin, but we already have Segwit and there was an explicit agreement between “industry leaders” that if miners implemented Segwit, blocksize would be increased to 2mb in November 2017.

But this agreement got flushed down the toilet at some point by the Bitcoin Core team and they are now fighting and dividing the community over something that is really not that big of a deal.

I suppose Core Developers could argue that they did not sign this agreement, however I expect everyone who did sign it, to follow through with their word and stop this stupid bout that has been going on for way too long.

NY Agreement Supporters: • 1Hash (China) • Abra (United States) • ANX (Hong Kong) • Bitangel.com /Chandler Guo (China) • BitClub Network (Hong Kong) • Bitcoin.com (St. Kitts & Nevis) • Bitex (Argentina) • bitFlyer (Japan) • Bitfury (United States) • Bitmain (China) • BitPay (United States) • BitPesa (Kenya) • BitOasis (United Arab Emirates) • Bitso (Mexico) • Bitwala (Germany) • Bixin.com (China) • Blockchain (UK) • Bloq (United States) • btc.com (China) • BTCC (China) • BTC.TOP (China) • BTER.com (China) • Circle (United States) • Civic (United States) • Coinbase (United States) • Coins.ph (Phillipines) • CryptoFacilities (UK) • Decentral (Canada) • Digital Currency Group (United States) • F2Pool (China) • Filament (United States) • Gavin Andresen (United States) • Genesis Global Trading (United States) • Genesis Mining (Hong Kong) • GoCoin (Isle of Man) • Grayscale Investments (United States) • Guy Corem (Israel) • Jaxx (Canada) • Korbit (South Korea) • Luno (Singapore) • MONI (Finland) • Netki (United States) • OB1 (United States) • Purse (United States) • Ripio (Argentina) • Safello (Sweden) • SFOX (United States) • ShapeShift (Switzerland) • surBTC (Chile) • Unocoin (India) • Vaultoro (Germany) • Veem (United States) • ViaBTC (China) • Wayniloans (Argentina) • Xapo (United States)• Yours (United States)

Originally published at steemit.com on November 7, 2017.