This is part of the Sw2x team to kill off bitcoin core.

Expect another similar adjustment before the fork.

Since they have 94% miner support (even higher if you consider how much mining power they are themselves directing at the core chain right now to bump up the difficulty) such a high difficulty on the core network will guarantee a success for SW2x team and instantly kill the entire bitcoin core network.

You realize Bitcoin core is not the Bitcoin it used to be right?
It's controlled by banksters and government people.
Read my other post.

The fact is people don't want bankster bitcoin core.
They want a coin by the people for the people. Which is what btg is.
We will see massie capital flow from bitcoincore into btg.
I suspect it will be valued around $2500 within a few days. And bitcoin core will lose that value, at least.

I remember a time where Bitcoin stood for independence of the bankster and goverment system.
Satoshi envisioned a future where people were free to trade on-chain and not through some obscure third party solutions or corporations.
With years of change to the core team it has now transitioned into a Corporate Bankster cartel where the only thing that matters is keeping the blocks small so the users are forced to use their 'brilliant' off-chain solutions (aaand we're back where we began...)
Most people don't know this i suppose.
The only true Bitcoin alive nowadays is Bitcoin Cash, which is the only true independent implementation of Satoshi's protocol where transactions are immutable and on-chain.
It's a sad state of crypto that we are in in general when ideas like SegWit, which is just incredibly insecure, can be pushed mainstream this easily.

People need to educate themselves.

Yea go ahead call me a hater or shill whatever you come up with. It's all bs, all i remember was the vision we had for bitcoin many years ago and what has become of it.

Here you'll get an idea how corrupted this all is
https://i.redd.it/15auzwkq3hiz.png

It's always like this, right before the massive crash it runs up.

Fact is, people don't want centralization like Bitcoin.
They want decentralization, which is exactly what BTG offers.
BTC is Bitcoin of the people, in contrast to the now Corporate Bankster Bitcoin Core.

Bitcoin Core will be sold hard to get BTG by anyone but a few people that don't understand the fundamentals.
Just 40 more hours before shit hits the fan and rivers of blood will flow through bitcoin land once again.
We'll see news stories again of people suiciding because they sold everything they have to get into Bitcoin Core and losing it all.

Verge Wraith protocol will make Monero look like a joke.

Soon the real privacy King will rise. Verge is the name.

Who knows, it's a serious bull trap. But don't forget that the whales know very well what is going on.
They are well aware that the network will collapse with the hard fork and prices will plummet through the floor.
I suspect they withhold selling right now just to boost the price so they can dump even more and harder when a little bull market seems kicks in just before the big disaster strikes.

This has to be the biggest bull trap so far.
Just grab some popcorn and coke and watch the price crash through the floor within a few weeks running up to the November hard fork (aka bitcoin network collapse).

The same goes for 99.9% of all OSes, people either use Windows or a pre-built linux variant. Even people that are able to read all the code won't take the time for it as it's just undoable.
I don't consider the OS to be the biggest thread here, that would be the malicious apps that pop up by the thousands in the app-stores and as drive-by downloads everywhere..

Consider a very big portion of all banking is done on mobile devices these days, this problem is not limited to crypto.
Mobile apps can be safe but using a 3rd party app from some unknown anonymous random guy on teh interwebs, sounds very safe!

Oh great, an unofficial mobile wallet.
If this doesn't smell like a great scam to steal a shitload of wallets i don't know what does...
It's also nice because they can't just steal your Monero, they can steal every other crypto you have on your mobile as well, gotta love mobile wallets and the mobile system security.
Be warned.

Gotta love the 80+% premine of bcn too.

This is a very old idea.

Several big sites already had btc payments implemented.
What happened next? Bitcoiners were happy but nobody was actually using it.
Same with real stores here that started accepting btc, simply nobody using it, so they stop accepting it.

Somebody explain to me why a system that can't even handle low volumes like we have now would boom?

Something that solves a problem can boom. Bitcoin can't even handle current transaction volume, which is like 0.00001% of global transactions.

Geez you really don't understand the severity of this upcoming hard fork and the destruction it will cause to both bitcoin as a tech and its economy.

China's fake ban is irrelevant.

The only thing that matters now is the global bans that are in the works.
China TAKING OVER mining operations, effectively owning and controlling the bitcoin network.

The next thing that matters is a complete shutdown of the bitcoin network due to the November hard fork.
If you thought you've seen drama and panic, just wait a few weeks.
This will be world news.
One of the biggest economic disasters of the century where billions were lost.

Lol this guy.
Just two days ago he was tweeting that he heard from "trusted sources" that this was just the beginning of the China ban and that things would get much worse from here.
I think we found one of these whales he's talking about...

It doesn't matter though, even if China wasn't planning to ban Bitcoin initially, you can bet your life that they got wind of the influence Bitcoin has with all this drama and they want nothing of it.
So bans ARE in the works, and not only in China, the only thing allowed to be in control and set strict rules are the Governments and banks in these countries, and they are big in numbers.

My prediction is that within a 2-5 year time frame Bitcoin will be illegal in 99% of the worlds countries and only be allowed in Antarctica or some other place where nobody actually lives or does anything with it.

You have to be really naive to think the 0.1% of people holding 99.99% of the worlds wealth will give that up for a silly monopoly money computer program.

Of course it will go down. Everything looks dark now.
China and several other countries are in the works to ban Bitcoin.
November will see the most horrible chainsplit ever seen in crypto.
This thing is going to see double digits again within 8 weeks.

But maybe if you write more capitals it will go up and fix all the problems.

Well that bulltrap wasn't hard to see, here we go. Down 10% already lol

Whether or not we'll see a hard fork?
Are you kidding me? With almost 95%!!! of the miners signaling SW2x support you can bet your ass we will get a hard fork and chaos like we've never seen before.
A 95% incompatibility between the users and the miners... my God if anyone was waiting for double digit Bitcoin that will be it!
Core team effectively being fired from their job.
Core network will effectively come to a complete HALT!
SW2x network will not pick up where Core left off, they have a different agenda, they don't have user support, they don't have the market.

This is going to be one clusterfck of unearthly proportions.
The price will reflect this, hence i can guarantee (still open for the bet!) every single person here the Bitcoin price will plummet far under $1000 before November fork.