The developers behind Segwit2x, a controversial plan to increase the transaction capacity of the bitcoin blockchain, plan to announce a firm date for a hard fork today.
A copy of a forthcoming blog post obtained by CoinDesk indicates that the Segwit2x team plans to enable bitcoin's miners to elect to run new software at block 494,784 on the blockchain, a block they expect will occur sometime in November of this year.
The announcement, while not yet public, is expected to be released formally later today. Entitled, "Bitcoin Upgrade at Block 494,784," the draft post is currently live on a website related to the project.
Article on Coindesk
