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SegWit2x

2017-11-09T20:46:38Z

Rfree: Shorter table

SegWit2x (do not confuse with [[SegWit]]), also called B2X, was an attempt made by CEOs and owners of several Bitcoin businesses to introduce a change in Bitcoin with following goals:

* increase block size limit to be 2 times bigger, despite block size being already increased by over 50% (for users of SegWit-enabled wallets) done just 3 months earlier by [[SegWit]] update.
* remove all other Bitcoin developers from their position
* instead install Jeff Garzik as the new de-facto developer (and possibly others)

== Support rate ==

It failed to gain consensus among community:

* over 80% of miners by hashare (though they were just signaling, and this has no cryptographic or economical meaning or repercussions)
* just below 20% of users by economy ([https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book/bt2btc BitFinex futures market as BT2 token]) (representing actual trades that were executed for money)
* around 0% of Bitcoin developers (Bitcoin Core)

== Attack or upgrade ==

It was created in a way that would trick users into unknowingly switching to B2X from BTC, due to:

* no replay protection
* simple SPV wallets without special tools to detect the problem would accept B2X blocks as BTC blocks
* same address formats
* code changes that allowed B2X nodes to pretend to be BTC nodes in order to connect and use P2P peers from BTC network

due to this qualities, many users considered B2X and attack on BTC network.

B2X was marketed by it's creators as an "upgrade".

== Cancellation ==

Project was canceled, or at least postponed by it's leaders, as announced in mailing list message: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html

This resulted in the price of B2X futures (called "BT2" on BitFinex) to withing minutes drop down from around 12% to 8%, and in following hours to 1% of Bitcoin (BTC, called "BT1" as future).

== Results of the conflict with Bitcoin ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Belligerents
|-
|colspan="3"|
'''Bitcoin (BTC)''' -versus- '''SegWit2X (B2X)'''
|-
!colspan="3"|Forces
|-
| || '''SegWit2X''' || '''Bitcoin''' (original)
|-
| Home base location || [https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/ github btc1] || [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ github bitcoin]
|-
| Structure || agreement between NYA CEOs || decentralized movement
|-
| Business Leadership || 6 CEOs || -
|-
| Lead developer(s) || [https://github.com/jgarzik 1] || [https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people several]
|-
| Companies support promised || 58 (located in 22 countries) || -
|-
| Hashing power promised || '''83%''' (~9 Exahashes/sec) || -
|-
| Hardware vendors supporting || BitMain / Jihan Wu || -
|-
| Users of web wallet || 20.5 million bitcoin wallets || -
|-
| Honey badger(s) || - || [[File:Honeybadger.jpeg|40px|none]]
|-
!colspan="3"|Casualties
|-
| '''Outcome''' || Unconditional capitulation || ''(ignores opponent)''
|-
| Ego(s) destroyed || 1+6 || -
|-
| Coins devalued || ~25000 BTC (BT2) burned on BitFinex || -
|-
| Block chains destroyed || 1 (never started) || -
|-
!colspan="3"|Tribute
|-
| Coins || - || +10 to +20% Bitcoin gained for some active participants
|-
|}

SegWit2x

2017-11-09T20:42:10Z

Rfree: the honey badger of money

SegWit2x (do not confuse with [[SegWit]]), also called B2X, was an attempt made by CEOs and owners of several Bitcoin businesses to introduce a change in Bitcoin with following goals:

* increase block size limit to be 2 times bigger, despite block size being already increased by over 50% (for users of SegWit-enabled wallets) done just 3 months earlier by [[SegWit]] update.
* remove all other Bitcoin developers from their position
* instead install Jeff Garzik as the new de-facto developer (and possibly others)

== Support rate ==

It failed to gain consensus among community:

* over 80% of miners by hashare (though they were just signaling, and this has no cryptographic or economical meaning or repercussions)
* just below 20% of users by economy ([https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book/bt2btc BitFinex futures market as BT2 token]) (representing actual trades that were executed for money)
* around 0% of Bitcoin developers (Bitcoin Core)

== Attack or upgrade ==

It was created in a way that would trick users into unknowingly switching to B2X from BTC, due to:

* no replay protection
* simple SPV wallets without special tools to detect the problem would accept B2X blocks as BTC blocks
* same address formats
* code changes that allowed B2X nodes to pretend to be BTC nodes in order to connect and use P2P peers from BTC network

due to this qualities, many users considered B2X and attack on BTC network.

B2X was marketed by it's creators as an "upgrade".

== Cancellation ==

Project was canceled, or at least postponed by it's leaders, as announced in mailing list message: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html

This resulted in the price of B2X futures (called "BT2" on BitFinex) to withing minutes drop down from around 12% to 8%, and in following hours to 1% of Bitcoin (BTC, called "BT1" as future).

== Results of the conflict with Bitcoin ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Date: 2017-11-08
|-
!colspan="3"|Belligerents
|-
|colspan="3"|
'''Bitcoin (BTC)''' -versus- '''SegWit2X (B2X)'''
|-
!colspan="3"|Forces
|-
| || '''SegWit2X''' || '''Bitcoin''' (original)
|-
| Home base location || [https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/ github btc1] || [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ github bitcoin]
|-
| Structure || agreement between NYA CEOs || decentralized movement
|-
| Business Leadership || 6 CEOs || -
|-
| Lead developer(s) || [https://github.com/jgarzik 1] || [https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people several]
|-
| Companies support promised || 58 (located in 22 countries) || -
|-
| Hashing power promised || '''83%''' (~9 Exahashes/sec) || -
|-
| Hardware vendors supporting || BitMain / Jihan Wu || -
|-
| Users of web wallet || 20.5 million bitcoin wallets || -
|-
| Honey badger(s) || - || [[File:Honeybadger.jpeg|40px|none]]
|-
!colspan="3"|Outcome
|-
|colspan="3"|Unconditional capitulation by B2X
|-
!colspan="3"|Casualties
|-
| Ego(s) destroyed || 1+6 || -
|-
| Coins devalued || ~25000 BTC (BT2) burned on BitFinex || -
|-
| Block chains destroyed || 1 (never started) || -
|-
!colspan="3"|Tribute
|-
| Coins || - || +10 to +20% Bitcoin gained for some active participants
|-
|}

File:Honeybadger.jpeg

2017-11-09T20:40:02Z

Rfree: from mediawiki uploads page (public)

from mediawiki uploads page (public)

SegWit2x

2017-11-09T20:34:17Z

Rfree: Table with outcome of conflict - moved to bottom instead

SegWit2x (do not confuse with [[SegWit]]), also called B2X, was an attempt made by CEOs and owners of several Bitcoin businesses to introduce a change in Bitcoin with following goals:

* increase block size limit to be 2 times bigger, despite block size being already increased by over 50% (for users of SegWit-enabled wallets) done just 3 months earlier by [[SegWit]] update.
* remove all other Bitcoin developers from their position
* instead install Jeff Garzik as the new de-facto developer (and possibly others)

== Support rate ==

It failed to gain consensus among community:

* over 80% of miners by hashare (though they were just signaling, and this has no cryptographic or economical meaning or repercussions)
* just below 20% of users by economy ([https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book/bt2btc BitFinex futures market as BT2 token]) (representing actual trades that were executed for money)
* around 0% of Bitcoin developers (Bitcoin Core)

== Attack or upgrade ==

It was created in a way that would trick users into unknowingly switching to B2X from BTC, due to:

* no replay protection
* simple SPV wallets without special tools to detect the problem would accept B2X blocks as BTC blocks
* same address formats
* code changes that allowed B2X nodes to pretend to be BTC nodes in order to connect and use P2P peers from BTC network

due to this qualities, many users considered B2X and attack on BTC network.

B2X was marketed by it's creators as an "upgrade".

== Cancellation ==

Project was canceled, or at least postponed by it's leaders, as announced in mailing list message: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html

This resulted in the price of B2X futures (called "BT2" on BitFinex) to withing minutes drop down from around 12% to 8%, and in following hours to 1% of Bitcoin (BTC, called "BT1" as future).

== Results of the conflict with Bitcoin ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Date: 2017-11-08
|-
!colspan="3"|Belligerents
|-
|colspan="3"|
'''Bitcoin (BTC)''' -versus- '''SegWit2X (B2X)'''
|-
!colspan="3"|Forces
|-
| || '''SegWit2X''' || '''Bitcoin''' (original)
|-
| Home base location || [https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/ github btc1] || [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ github bitcoin]
|-
| Structure || agreement between NYA CEOs || decentralized movement
|-
| Business Leadership || 6 CEOs || -
|-
| Lead developer(s) || [https://github.com/jgarzik 1] || [https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people several]
|-
| Companies support promised || 58 (located in 22 countries) || -
|-
| Hashing power promised || '''83%''' (~9 Exahashes/sec) || -
|-
| Hardware vendors supporting || BitMain / Jihan Wu || -
|-
| Users of web wallet || 20.5 million bitcoin wallets || -
|-
| Honey badger(s) || - || yes
|-
!colspan="3"|Outcome
|-
|colspan="3"|Unconditional capitulation by B2X
|-
!colspan="3"|Casualties
|-
| Ego(s) destroyed || 1+6 || -
|-
| Coins devalued || ~25000 BTC (BT2) burned on BitFinex || -
|-
| Block chains destroyed || 1 (never started) || -
|-
!colspan="3"|Tribute
|-
| Coins || - || +10 to +20% Bitcoin gained for some active participants
|-
|}

SegWit2x

2017-11-09T20:33:06Z

Rfree: Table with outcome of conflict

== Results of the conflict with Bitcoin ==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Date: 2017-11-08
|-
!colspan="3"|Belligerents
|-
|colspan="3"|
'''Bitcoin (BTC)''' -versus- '''SegWit2X (B2X)'''
|-
!colspan="3"|Forces
|-
| || '''SegWit2X''' || '''Bitcoin''' (original)
|-
| Home base location || [https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/ github btc1] || [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/ github bitcoin]
|-
| Structure || agreement between NYA CEOs || decentralized movement
|-
| Business Leadership || 6 CEOs || -
|-
| Lead developer(s) || [https://github.com/jgarzik 1] || [https://github.com/orgs/bitcoin/people several]
|-
| Companies support promised || 58 (located in 22 countries) || -
|-
| Hashing power promised || '''83%''' (~9 Exahashes/sec) || -
|-
| Hardware vendors supporting || BitMain / Jihan Wu || -
|-
| Users of web wallet || 20.5 million bitcoin wallets || -
|-
| Honey badger(s) || - || yes
|-
!colspan="3"|Outcome
|-
|colspan="3"|Unconditional capitulation by B2X
|-
!colspan="3"|Casualties
|-
| Ego(s) destroyed || 1+6 || -
|-
| Coins devalued || ~25000 BTC (BT2) burned on BitFinex || -
|-
| Block chains destroyed || 1 (never started) || -
|-
!colspan="3"|Tribute
|-
| Coins || - || +10 to +20% Bitcoin gained for some active participants
|-
|}

SegWit2x (do not confuse with [[SegWit]]), also called B2X, was an attempt made by CEOs and owners of several Bitcoin businesses to introduce a change in Bitcoin with following goals:

* increase block size limit to be 2 times bigger, despite block size being already increased by over 50% (for users of SegWit-enabled wallets) done just 3 months earlier by [[SegWit]] update.
* remove all other Bitcoin developers from their position
* instead install Jeff Garzik as the new de-facto developer (and possibly others)

== Support rate ==

It failed to gain consensus among community:

* over 80% of miners by hashare (though they were just signaling, and this has no cryptographic or economical meaning or repercussions)
* just below 20% of users by economy ([https://www.bitfinex.com/order_book/bt2btc BitFinex futures market as BT2 token]) (representing actual trades that were executed for money)
* around 0% of Bitcoin developers (Bitcoin Core)

== Attack or upgrade ==

It was created in a way that would trick users into unknowingly switching to B2X from BTC, due to:

* no replay protection
* simple SPV wallets without special tools to detect the problem would accept B2X blocks as BTC blocks
* same address formats
* code changes that allowed B2X nodes to pretend to be BTC nodes in order to connect and use P2P peers from BTC network

due to this qualities, many users considered B2X and attack on BTC network.

B2X was marketed by it's creators as an "upgrade".

== Cancellation ==

Project was canceled, or at least postponed by it's leaders, as announced in mailing list message: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html

This resulted in the price of B2X futures (called "BT2" on BitFinex) to withing minutes drop down from around 12% to 8%, and in following hours to 1% of Bitcoin (BTC, called "BT1" as future).

SegWit2x

2017-11-09T19:27:05Z

Rfree: General introduction segwit2x

SegWit2x

2017-11-09T19:21:38Z

Rfree: General introduction