Well this is it.
Uh, it is?
You do realise that Segwit2x activating is meaningless if users don't switch to the forked Bitcoin software that can use it?
Good luck to everyone and let us hope the new set of developers are as good as the core development team. I have heard good and bad things about Jeff Garzik. Hopefully the good will outweigh the bad for bitcoin's sake.
Again, you do realise that a switch in development teams is by no means inevitable?
When you look at Garzik's track record, and the people he's often taken sides with (Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen etc), he represents the class of people that wnat Bitcoin to be owned and run by the establishment financial system, centrally.
So you're presenting a picture that implies we can't do anything about something that's potentially very bad for Bitcoin: we hand control of the software development to people who want to turn it into PayPal 2.0, probably as slowly as possible to keep as many lemmings on board as possible.
It's simple: don't follow any of these hard forks, they're all demonstrably bad ideas, and all demonstrably dangerous to the stability both of the Bitcoin network and it's market price.
Why are you encouraging (false) belief in a voluntary change that seriously threatens Bitcoin, bbc.reporter? Bit irresponsible of you.
, I'm not kidding, its not a joke.
It will activate within 10 days, I am 100% certain. As mentioned iram1101, signalling Segwit2X for fun a while back, and doing it in a serious manner right now to trigger lock in, and after that activation, is quite a different thing, but I have no doubt that it will happen in this case. It has taken enough time already to allow Bitcoin to technically grow further, so I am glad that whatever happens, we after 2 or 3 weeks will look at this whole situation from a completely different angle. Some of the people might end up being disappointed, where others will applaud this change. I must however point out that despite the endless scaling discussions, no implementation of whatever proposal, trolls spreading FUD, the market has performed exceptionally well. 
