At the moment there is not need to worry, the problem has mostly been resolved for the time being by the developers and
mining pool operators.
Several months later, an even bigger group of Bitcoin Core contributors and
mining pool operators met in California.
And according (translation) to at least one
mining pool operator, BTC.TOP's Jiang Zhuo'er, this is intentional.
In recent months, nearly every bitcoin exchange and wallet provider of note has at least stated their intention to implement the necessary changes to prepare for the activation of SegWit, but many
mining pool operators have yet to signal support for this change.
Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, BTC.com's
mining pool operator, Kevin Pan, indicated that, in the short term, it will not signal support for Segregated Witness but will instead await further community consensus.
On August 1, ViaBTC intends to suspend withdrawals so that it can begin listing actual Bitcoin Cash tokens, and other
mining pool operators have said they will use the term Bitcoin Cash and the BCC ticker symbol to differentiate it from bitcoin, generally represented by the ticker symbol BTC.
In remarks, Haipo Yang and Jiang Zhuoer, two major
mining pool operators, said they didn't expect the change to be contentious.
Major Chinese ASIC manufacturer and
mining pool operator, Bitmain, planned and coded a response to the possibility of a UASF - induced fork.
He emphasized that it will most likely cause major problems for BitcoinCash because most of its mining activities are conducted by Chinese
mining pool operators.
Not exact matches
Like wallets,
pool sites are unregulated and the
operator of the
pool — who receives all the coins
mined — is under no legal obligation to give everyone their cut.
Chip designers, manufacturers, resellers, and
pool operators have all staked a claim in the Bitcoin
mines and look set for growth.
Yang is an
operator of one of the newer
mining pools, but has already generated complaints for his favored stance - that SegWit has little to do with scaling and that all the main devs should be fired.
«But now suddenly I'm in a situation where I have to trust a large
mining -
pool operator who says, «Don't worry, we're not going to do anything bad».»
A statement made on Reddit by the
operator of EtherChain, a large Ethereum
mining pool, has stated
BTCC, the
operator of one of the largest bitcoin
mining pools and cryptocurrency exchange platform, was sold to an investment fund from Hong Kong.
Yet, the situation took a decisive turn earlier today when Bitmain, the
operator of Antpool, the world's largest bitcoin
mining pool, announced that it would switch its entire
mining pool to Bitcoin Unlimited, a bitcoin implementation that would aggressively expand the block size.
On Thursday, major Bitcoin network
operator (or «
mining pool») F2
Pool formally withdrew its support for the next stage of a planned Bitcoin upgrade known as SegWit2x.
The
operator of the Chinese
mining pool F2
Pool, Wang Chun, signed onto the Hong Kong Roundtable consensus as well.
In a comment on Bitcointalk, Kano CKPool
operator «kano» recently indicated the
pool will keep
mining standard Bitcoin blocks; blocks that do not support changes to the protocol.
Also on the record for backing out of Segwit2x is bitcoin
mining pool F2
Pool, with its
operator Wang Chun telling CoinDesk in August that he didn't support the New York Agreement any longer.
This event clearly showed that even such a well thought - out system is controlled by the will of a very small number of people — particularly, the
operators of
mining pools.
The new
pool follows statements made on August 17 by Bitmain founder and Antpool
operator, Jihan Wu, saying «Antpool will start to provide bitcoin cash
mining option after at least one of Segwit supporter / fan
pools start to
mining bitcoin cash.»
Bitmain is the most influential miner in the industry and
operator of the largest Bitcoin
mining pool, Antpool — currently
mining 25 % of all blocks.
In the days prior to the fork, developers and node
operators (such as
mining pools) were given some last - minute toil, as faults found in Byzantium software led to continuous re-releases.
Marshaling the approval of
pool owners and
mining operators has been key, however, to bringing the power of SegWit to both Litecoin and Bitcoin, as combined hashing power was needed in order to activate the SegWit changes on the entire blockchain.
Based on our
pool of users,
mining machine
operators tend to be predominately investigative people.