SegWit2X and the Case for Strong Replay Protection And Why It's Controversial

Come November, the remaining signatories of the New York Agreement NYA plan to deploy the SegWit2X hard fork to double Bitcoins block weight limit, allowing for up to 8 megabytes of block space. Since not everyone supports this hard fork, this could well split the Bitcoin network into two incompatible blockchains and currencies, not unlike Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash Bcash did two months ago.But this NYA hard fork is controversial and not only because it lacks consensus. Its also controversial b

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