Op Ed Here's Why All Rational Miners Will Activate SegWit Through BIP148

A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork UASF, using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148BIP148. If they go through with it, there could be two types of Bitcoin on and after August 1st, which this article will refer to as 148BTC for the BIP148 side of the split, and LegacyBTC for the non-BIP148 side.At time of the split, 148BTC nodes will no longer recognise the LegacyBTC chain as valid no matter how much hash power mines on this chain. 148BTC would basically ju

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