Rumor: A massive whale will switch legacy coins for BIP148 coins after august1st

[25hashcoin]

You're mentally challenged or a paid shill. There is no other way of explaining this kind of absurdity in your statements.
 

Is that it? Attacks, ad hominem, and shill accusations? Yep, you definitely checkout as a BlockstreamCore Bot.

[classicsucks]

The irony is supreme - if UASF will have even the slightest chance of "success" (by that I mean: splitting the bitcoin chain and causing havoc in the space, mostly just a shorting opportunity for investors), they'll need to buy a bunch of miners from Jihan Wu!

[Lauda]

Is that it? Attacks, ad hominem, and shill accusations? Yep, you definitely checkout as a BlockstreamCore Bot.

Absurdity. That's like telling someone who is a flat earth believer that they're an idiot. If you believe in voodoo, of course I'm going to call you out on your delusions.
There's already more support for BIP148 than EC.

[classicsucks]

The irony is supreme - if UASF will have even the slightest chance of "success" (by that I mean: splitting the bitcoin chain and causing havoc in the space, mostly just a shorting opportunity for investors), they'll need to buy a bunch of miners from Jihan Wu!

I'm sure UASF supporters will find way such as buy ASIC from unpopular manufacture or change bitcoin mining algorithm and back to the day where bitcoin can be mined with CPU/GPU.

I still don't understand this "Change the POW" logic - changing the POW would be the ultimate hard fork, and there is no reasonable assumption that this Frankencoin would be called Bitcoin. It's simply creating another altcoin, but trying to keep the Bitcoin name. Which won't work.

[pereira4]

The irony is supreme - if UASF will have even the slightest chance of "success" (by that I mean: splitting the bitcoin chain and causing havoc in the space, mostly just a shorting opportunity for investors), they'll need to buy a bunch of miners from Jihan Wu!

Well, the UASF chain would no longer be kept hostage with covert ASICBOOST, which to my knowledge, segwit totally fulminates.

So not only UASF chain is better technologically due segwit, but it is no longer kept hostage with what is basically a 51% attack.

In any case, you don't need to buy mining gear from Jihan:

https://canaan.io/product/avalonminer-741/

[Thatstinks]

Looks like more and more everyday, Localbitcoins as of now will acknowledge the BIP148 coin as they are calling it. Can it happen perhaps, we should ready for anything because one day something will be done.