1. This does not prevent a hard fork. A hard fork is supposed to happen to increase the base block size to 2MB in three months. That's why it's called SegWitx2.
2. Soft forks can also cause chain splits.
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Everybody is happy now, well except Bitcoin Unlimited has been foiled in their plans to undermine bitcoin
Bitcoin Unlimited support a hard fork which will happen on August 1st, creating "Bitcoin Cash".
BTC insurgents can make their own coin.... and what? All this speculation on hardfork just whale games.
Mining pools just represent miners. If miners thought that their pool was particularly damaging, they could switch to a different one.
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You are just an FUD factory.
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