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Podcast: Bitcoin & Markets
Episode: SegWit, Attacks, and Wikileaks
Description: Bits and Pieces SEGWIT Drama Part 1) ViaBTC Standoff This mining pool has taken a political stance against scaling bitcoin, and is blocking any attempt at a soft fork to SegWit. They had 168 Phs and about 10% of blocks. And being that Segwit needs 95% of blocks, they can currently block activation. 'We don't negotiate with terrorists.' The political aims of these hard forks are crazy obvious. They cried about scaling, scaling, scaling. Then they get their scaling and malleability fix to enable...