Considering I do most my posting in here, I'll just ask even though its not specific to Dash... When (if) BTC and BTCU hard fork, would the BTC change activate segwit due to the fact that it can't activate due to the BTCU hashing rate and once that is out of the picture we will see SegWit? Then we will have BTC(SegWit) and BTCU(LargerBlock) followed by BTC(SegWit+LargerBlock) and BTCU(downward spiral)
I believe in BTC long term just like I believe in Dash and ETH.. Was just pondering this question over coffee and updates on BTCT.
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In theory, yes. That may be what Core is hoping for...a miscalculation by BU miners that causes the fork to be unsuccessful. That gives you the "safety valve effect" where the rebellious community is now gone, meaning Core could go ahead and implement SegWit and Lightning.
However, I think there's a 99.99% chance of no fork happening. Even if 75% of miners signaled for BU, I doubt that all of them would actually start producing big blocks (fork). When it comes right down to it, people are much more willing to protest than they are to take serious risks. If BU does fork, I expect they won't do it until they are 100% certain that they will succeed as the majority chain. In that case they will likely attach the minority chain (Core) to kill it, and Core will change algos. Then you'll have the supposedly "real" Bitcoin running on a bunch of GPUs somewhere. It's the worst plan I've ever heard, honestly. If BU gets to the point where they can fork, they will win. I doubt they get there, though.
No, what I see is even worse. The scaling debate has raged for over three years. Both sides are entrenched and neither is willing to "lose face" by compromising. Even if a "grand bargain" could be arranged with compromises from both sides, it probably wouldn't work. Core basically had a "grand bargain" two years ago (SegWit+increased block sizes), but they lied. When it came time to activate bigger blocks, Core reneged on the deal. Now that everybody knows Core will lie to get its way, I don't see the miners falling for it again.
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