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Split or No Split? Bitcoin Miners See No Certainty in Segwit2x Fork

CoinDesk continues its Segwit2x feature series with a look at how miners view the proposal and the open questions left regarding their support.

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Bitcoin 'Battle'? Core Developers Apathetic as Segwit2x Fork Approaches

Bitcoin developers, once outraged by the Segwit2x hard fork, are now indifferent, believing it stands no chance of replacing bitcoin.

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Understanding Segwit2x: Why Bitcoin's Next Fork Might Not Mean Free Money

CoinDesk offers a high-level overview of the coming Segwit2x fork, how it differs from the hard forks before it and what it might mean for bitcoin.

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Bitcoin or Bitcoin2x? News & Guides to Navigate November's Fork

CoinDesk compiles its explainers and feature articles on Segwit2x ahead of its expected hard fork in mid-November.

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'Full Steam Ahead' for Segwit2x, Developer Jeff Garzik Says

The Segwit2x team is pushing ahead with a bid to change the bitcoin blockchain's rules, according to an email from its lead developer.

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Logical or Not, Bitcoin's Coming Fork Is Boosting Its Price

Bitcoin is trading at an all-time high, and with another contentious hard fork coming, the reasons why have experts wondering.

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Just SegWit? Bitcoin Core Is Already Working on a New Scaling Upgrade

Bitcoin developers are making progress on Schnorr, a function for aggregating signatures and in turn, a way to increase the capacity of the network.

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Calm Before the Fork? Segwit2x Goes Silent as Bitcoin Split Looms

With a lull in activity, what's really going on under the Segwit2x hood? According to many developers, now is the calm before the storm.

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F2Pool Reneges: Bitcoin Pool Pulls Segwit2x Support Over Hard Fork

Controversial scaling proposal, Segwit2x has lost Chinese mining pool, F2Pool's support over its timeline for a 2MB hard fork.

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SegWit's Slow Rollout: Why Bitcoin's Capacity Hasn't Seen a Sudden Boost

When SegWit finally activated last week, the code change didn't immediately make its benefits possible. So, when can we expect to see some benefits?

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