While many bitcoiners have been focused on the competition between Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), another significant battle is taking place. Many grueling arguments between bitcoin Core developers and their supporters, Segwit2x (Btc1) developers and proponents of the New York Agreement continue to fuel tension throughout the entire cryptocurrency community.
There’s been a lot of drama across the web concerning Segwit2x and the bitcoin Core reference client. It started with Bitpay’s statement which gave Bitcore nodes the choice to use Segwit2x software, instead of the Core reference client as a form of upgrade. Since then Core developers/supporters and Segwit2x developers/supporters have been battling ferociously. These fights were followed by Bitpay and its services being removed from Bitcoin.org, and early Bitcoin adopter and developer Jeff Garzik was removed from the Core repository on Github.
The Source. Here we go again! We in the Bitcoin community had witnessed the drama full of lies, hypes and exaggerations leading to August 1 and we know how dirty things can be. Definitely, it affected the price of Bitcoin because the market was enveloped by fear and uncertainty. And now, the same thing can be back this time it is looking forward to November and since we are only about to enter September, it can be a two-month battle for all of us.
To put it simply, I really hate this whole mess because we are all affected somehow. But this is a big reality we have to accept. All I know is that in Bitcoin community there is no single leader or a group of people who can officially decide and speak for Bitcoin. Though this is part of what decentralization is all about, there are also disadvantages here.
Oh well, we might as well be prepared for an escalation of these many battles taking place in the periphery of Bitcoin.
