in November, 75% of the pools will move on seqwit2x without the consent of the developers of bitcoin
And if they manage to pull that off, they will no longer be mining bitcoin. I hope they have a blast
These forks are cashgrabs. When you have shit ton of bitcoin, a thought must arise in ones head. How can I generate value out of thin air just by changing a small (comparatively) bit of code, and how can I make bitcoin cheaper so that I can buy more?
"A fork!"
I say all this because these baby forks will never gain enough traction to surpass and replace bitcoin, which is the aim of their existence. Its an alt with the same mining algo, which to me means a rival coin (cuz so many of the features are literally the same). If you want to break away from the consensus, do it on your own dime, not on the back of bitcoin.
And now you have to explain "fork" when you explain "bitcoin", which is already a pickle.