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by yeneek 1878 days ago
It's other way around. Majority of miners were against SegWit and blocked its activation for over a year. Community then decided to collectively upgrade their nodes to accept only certain transactions. It is called User Activated Soft Fork (#UASF) The miners had to make a decision. Mine coins that rest of the world dont want, or activate segwit.