in my opinion planning for SegWit2x this soon is madness. that fork is not like BTG to be clearly a premined shitcoin, you need to wait and see what will happen. and also if everyone starts thinking about you, the price will go to the moon and by the time you want to sell altcoins to get bitcoin or even buy it, that would be way too late.
i also find it strange that you say you are not holding any amount of bitcoin but you claim to be holding altcoins which have lost considerable amount of their price (since you bought in summer ATH)!
from your comments here i have a feeling that you read a lot of reddit emotional bullshit and you are caught up in it. if so, you have to seriously stop it or that will hurt you badly.
the valuable B2X,
valuable? we don't know yet.
it may replace bitcoin and become the majority chain. or it may end up being nothing with 0 hashrate. or it may be a split and leave bitcoin half and half!
The hardfork would be without the necessary, changes necessary for upgrade to 0.15.
Instead of that there is a high risk with security vulnerabilities of Bitcoin 0.14, so hackers could take advantage of this and make a lot of damage to our wallets.
if these numbers are bitcoin core versions, then i believe btc1 has already merged 0.15 changes into their repository. but i am certain that there has been NO security vulnerabilities in bitcoin core 0.14.
a large part of bitcoin network is still on 0.14 by the way!
The B2X team didn't also put any effort to improve B2X with replay protection.
replay protection is not an improvement. it is either a necessity or a damaging thing.
it is a necessity if a fork doesn't have enough support (>95%) and can potentially leave another chain running.
a damaging thing if it has a large support (>95%) because it causes everyone to be forced to upgrade their wallets. think of this as if after SegWit fork in September you would have to upgrade your wallet just because they implemented replay protection for SegWit soft fork which had 100% support!
their team believes they have a large amount of support and i believe they won't implement replay protection until proven otherwise which means until the real signaling begins.
Segwit2x nodes will look exactly like bitcoin nodes so that bitcoin nodes do not know what transaction should reject...
no they won't. they will start sending invalid blocks and then transactions which will be rejected by the bitcoin network. the worst thing that can happen is wasting bitcoin nodes' resources such as bandwidth and CPU power.
(don't confuse this with replay attack)
by the way if they would have looked exactly like bitcoin nodes then there would have been a serious flaw in bitcoin!
all this sounds fishy..
Balls of steel to risk your investments? Then go for B2X .. me at least, i decided to keep on with my alts.
take your own decision, but please be warned. be careful.
all that said is just my understanding and my plans. i prefer to wait and watch before deciding what B2X is. wait to see how many of the miners stay and how many will go, how many of the businesses, .... will do the same.
and obviously i am holding bitcoin but for a very long time i don't mind any dips, in the end the real bitcoin will survive.
