
Bitmain’s contingency announcement: fuel on the fire?
25 June 2017
If you’re anything like me, you may have struggled to get through Bitmain’s recent contingency announcement regarding BIP148 (a.k.a. SegWit activation) and its prediction of an imminent UASF (User Activated Soft Fork). It was long, technical, and honestly, a little boring. Maybe that was deliberate on their part – because when you strip it down, it’s hard to deduce what their real objectives and motivations are.
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