What is USAF and how to activate it?

[adam440]

Hi, can someone tell me what exactly is user activated soft work without political bullshit? So far I know that it's way, how full nodes can activate SegWit without miners support. But how can one activate it in Bitcoin Core wallet?

[cellard]

Something that is used to activate stuff without the approval of the miners. Everyone can run a node so everyone can have a vote and there is not a massive monopoly in charge with the rigged ASIC machines.

[The One]

Hi, can someone tell me what exactly is user activated soft work without political bullshit? So far I know that it's way, how full nodes can activate SegWit without miners support. But how can one activate it in Bitcoin Core wallet?

uacomment=UASF-SegWit-BIP148 in bitcoin.conf file.

[Carlton Banks]

The following thread gives Windows instructions:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1860802.0

Choice edits of those steps wll of course work for Linux, although I'm not sure it would be so simple for MacOS