So, I swept through the top five or six pages here... and didn't see anything related to this... I stumbled across this announcement on BTC.TOP (yay for Google Translate)... The original text is here:
I see they mention July 31st... is this an attempt to cut BIP148 off at the pass? All aboard the Segwit2x Train?? What's going on?
China 's counter - dollar roundtable forum on the decision to implement the special currency New York consensus expansion program resolution
In order to effectively solve the problem of Bitcoin network congestion, we will accelerate the development of Bitcoin expansion and promote the sustained, healthy and stable development of Bitcoin. With the support of various mines, exchanges, miners and miners, The meeting of the participants in the June 15, 2021 held a special currency agreement to upgrade the meeting, the meeting we unanimously decided to fully support the promotion of Bitcoin New York consensus expansion program, and reached the following resolution:
1, we support the New York Consensus SegWit2x program;
2, we will next Monday (June 19) began to vote to support SegWit2x program. In order to avoid using the bit4 vote to influence the official voting results, we will write the "NYA" tag in coinbase and vote on the New York Consortium SegWit2x program.
3, we will start the New York Consensus SegWit2x program btc1 (
https://github.com/ Btc1) software test and join testnet5, and after the release of the official version as soon as possible after the release;
4, we eager to activate the July 31 before the New York consensus SegWit2x program.
Participants are as follows:
1,1hash.com
2, Hu Lan (currency net mineral pool)
3, Jiang Thatcher (BTC.TOP, LTC.TOP)
4, Li Ang (Canoepool.com)
5, Pei was (easy to dig)
6, Liu Aihua (see currency )
7, Mao Bank (F2pool pond)
8, PZ (China Bitcoin roundtable Forum convener)
9, Wang Ruixi (BATPOOL.com)
10, Wu Gang (letter of mine currency pool)
11, Wu Ji Han (bits mainland)
12, Xu Zijing (Kosovo Capital Australia Collinstar)
13, Yang Haipo (ViaBTC.com)
14, Zhao Qianjie (Bit Coin China National Pool)
15, Zhu Jiawei (fire coins)
June 15, 2017