It's sort of a game of chicken. Many people say that there will be a hard fork but the miners have a lot to lose if they hard fork and people don't go with it. I actually think it's likely that there will be two Bitcoins and that the more decentralized one will win.
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And it's unlikely to be the 2x fork. Segwit2x is just the 5th (or 6th?) attempt at big business trying to take control of Bitcoin's source code, it started with Bitcoin XT 2 years ago, and there have been umpteen attempts since then.
And it always involves a hardfork so that the Bitcoin codebase becomes controlled by the people proposing the fork. Bitcoin will continue with the actually talented and innovative programmers it has now, one way or another.
If it means we must do our own hardfork to evade malicious miner action against the Bitcoin Core chain, then so be it. Come with it you cowards.
