because given half a chance they will gobble up your bonus BTC
Segwit 2x hard fork was Originally scheduled for November, the development team cancelled the fork amidst controversy and strong division in the community. In an official statement, the team recognized that they had “not built sufficient consensus for a clean blocksize upgrade at this time,” foregoing the fork in an effort to “[keep] the community together.”
I know transaction fees are high but they could go a lot higher so allow plenty of time to move your BTC to a private wallet
or you could find yourself out of luck.
You can find plenty of recommendations both here and on Youtube about what free wallets to use to store your coins
in and I recommend Jaxx on a android device myself but install the app on a spare MicroSD card that you can remove
from the device when you are not using it because the pass phrase is vulnerable and is stored encrypted in the file system.
Happy new year, have a drink from Segwit