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by tryingagainbro 3147 days ago
Until it's on again. Didn't they fork a few months ago too (Bitcoin Cash)?
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Coinbase didn't sign the notice calling off segwit2x[0] even tho they were an NYA signatory - but rather said they were "monitoring"[1] the situation

I sense some uncertainty from Coinbase on what they want to do next.

edit: also interesting that the price for segwit2x futures has increased today to ~$380 after a low of $198[2]

[0] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x...

[1] https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/928476503062462464

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/segwit2x/

What is bitcoin futures? Is this speculative pricing on the speculative 2x fork?
This reminds me of the scene in The Big Short where a manager casually talks about CDOs, synthetic CDOs and squared CDOs. And Steve Carell's character start asking: "what are squared CDOs... ?"
Different camps, different forks, pushing different kind of agenda