There was even an «October surprise» of a sort, with the news that
SegWit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik was involved with a new cryptocurrency called Metronome.
Technology Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on
the Segwit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik detailing that the upcoming fork was «still full steam ahead.»
A statement co-released by ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees, Blockchain CEO Peter Smith, Xapo CEO Wences Casares, and
SegWit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik read:
The statement was co-signed by leading businesses within the bitcoin industry which participated in the original NYA or SegWit2x agreement, which included ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees, Blockchain CEO Peter Smith, Xapo CEO Wences Casares, and
SegWit2x lead developer Jeff Garzik.
Not exact matches
Headed up by Jeff Garzik, the
lead developer behind the failed
SegWit2x hard fork, along with Matthew Roszak and SongXiu Hua, this UnitedBitcoin (UB) hard fork will offer replay protection to prevent people from accidentally spending their coins on both the Bitcoin and the UnitedBitcoin blockchains.
He was a
leading developer in the thwarted
SegWit2x initiative, a well - intentioned plan which became the most divisive fork debate in bitcoin's history.
«Even
leading developers have shown it is too hard to create forks of the Bitcoin blockchain without making critical errors,» Two said, referring to the recent failed
SegWit2x launch.
The controversial scaling proposal
Segwit2x may have been officially called off this August, but that doesn't mean its former
lead developer is giving up on plans to keep its codebase alive.
However, support for the
Segwit2x upgrade grew faint which
led to the cancellation of it by
developers.
Likewise, litecoin
developer «PZ,» an organizer of a meeting that
led to litecoin miners passing a tech upgrade in April, said
Segwit2x «will create a new currency.»
The
Segwit2x team is pushing ahead with a bid to change the bitcoin blockchain's rules, according to an email from its
lead developer.
At block height 494784 the
Segwit2x working group
led by bitcoin
developer Jeff Garzik, and a large swathe of miners and businesses, plan to hard fork the network.
The controversial scaling proposal
Segwit2x may have been officially called off this August, but that doesn't mean its former
lead developer is giving...
Yesterday,
developers leading the charge on Bitcoin's next hard fork changed their minds — they decided not to pursue the
SegWit2x upgrade.
of
developers on both sides to minimize the chances of a network split, both BIP148 and
SegWit2x still possess very real risks of diverging from the current Bitcoin protocol, which in turn could
lead to further network splits.