Saturday, July 1st was filled with fresh new code as the Segwit2x working group released the team’s protocol beta v1.14.3 with release notes. Alongside this, a new implementation of a user-activated hard fork (UAHF) was made available for download the same day.
The Segwit2x Beta Codebase Has Been Released
Segwit2x Beta Released as New UAHF Code Proposal `ABC´ Removes 1MB-LimitThere’s a lot going on behind the scenes in the world of bitcoin development and even more so within the context of scaling. This weekend the Segwit2x beta was released, as well as a bitcoin developer’s mailing list message from Jeff Garzik who’s been doing a lot of the code work for this project. The new release includes various bug fixes and consensus changes according to the Github repo.
“The charter and goal of the segwit2x effort has always been tightly focused on a “SegWit + 2M HF” safe network upgrade, and producing/testing/auditing software to accomplish that,” explains the Segwit2x beta release. “Milestones are intentionally labeled “alpha” or “beta” per normal software engineering practices, and expectations should be set accordingly.”
"The over-simplified summary of the network upgrade sequence is: bit-4 SegWit activation + 144*90 blocks This matches the goal outlined in the kickoff Project Mission: “Segwit will start being enforced shortly after lock in, whereas as 2mb blocks will be a bit farther out to ensure people have plenty of time to upgrade their nodes.”
Bitcoin proponents, who are often very vocal on social media and forums, are still voicing mixed signals when it comes to this compromise. As far as mining support goes, the “intention” to signal the next steps is roughly 84.7 percent at the time of writing.
Segwit2x (Intention) signaling is 84.7% on July 1, 2017.
https://news.bitcoin.com/segwit2x-beta-released-as-new-uahf-code-proposal-abc-removes-1mb-limit/