[stale2002]

Kind of.

You are correct that segwit2X is a hard fork, and therefore the other side could potentially stop it from happening.

But the thing is that it is already established that it is possible to do a blocksize increase via a soft fork. Segwit itself is literally a blocksize soft fork.

So if the hard fork fails, the big blockers could instead just blocksize soft fork instead of hard fork.

The war won't be over if segwit2X fails. That is the beginning, not the end, of the real Bitcoin civil war that will happen.

[Frogolocalypse]

> therefore the other side could potentially stop it from happening

No one can stop you from forking bitcoin. It's open source. Anyone can do it. What you can't do is force all of the existing users to stop using bitcoin, and instead use your china-coin fork.

I wish you woukd fork. But you won't. Because as soon as you do, you'll find that none of the existing users of bitcoin will follow your fork. So a week or so later, you'll blame core.