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Happy Bitcoin Independence Day!

Today commemorates an important day in the #Bitcoin community where on August 1st, 2017, users decided to claim control over the network. We've compiled a thread of @AaronvanW's coverage on the event dating back to May 2017👇#UASF #No2X
May 24th, 2017 — Spearheaded by @barrysilbert's DCG, over 50 companies signed and published a “Bitcoin Scaling Agreement” on Medium. [It] intends to put an end to Bitcoin’s long-lasting scaling debate.

Whether it actually will is another question.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/dcgs-…
June 16, 2017 — Bitcoin’s long-lasting scaling debate appeared to be heading toward a climax lately, with two proposals gaining significant traction. At one end... BIP148, a user activated soft fork.. On the other, there’s SegWit2x.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bip91…
September 12, 2017 — At Breaking Bitcoin 2017: “There’s no such thing as a safe hard fork,” Electrum lead developer Thomas Voegtlin corrected an audience member at the Breaking Bitcoin conference in Paris last weekend.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/no2x-…
September 22, 2017 — Come November, the remaining signatories of the “New York Agreement” (NYA) plan to deploy the “SegWit2X” hard fork to double Bitcoin’s block weight limit, allowing for up to 8 megabytes of block space.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/segwi…
October 10, 2017 — A group of Bitcoin companies plans to deploy a hard fork to double Bitcoin’s block weight limit to eight megabytes this November. Known as “SegWit2x,” this incompatible protocol change follows from the New York Agreement (NYA). bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/2x-or…
October 13, 2017 — A beginner's guide to surviving the forks. It looks as if Bitcoin will experience at least two more “coin-splits” soon, which (more accurately) will result in the creation of new coins.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitco…
October 28, 2017 — It currently seems certain that not everyone will adopt this incompatible protocol change. As such, the SegWit2x fork would result in two different blockchains and two different currencies.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/b2x-o…
October 31, 2017 — Rejecting 2x: The list of signatories of this agreement includes several of the largest Bitcoin startups and mining pools that, together, claim to represent a majority of users and hash power. bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/these…
November 8, 2017 — Failure: In an email to the SegWit2x mailing list, one of the main organizers behind the project, BitGo CEO @mikebelshe, explained that the proposed hard fork has not been able to gain sufficient consensus to proceed. bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/no2x-…
November 17, 2017 — In case there were any remaining doubts, it now seems clear that the SegWit2x hard fork will not happen.
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/now-s…
@AaronvanW Some additional writing on UASF:

"Just when Bitcoin’s long-lasting scalability dispute appeared to have reached a deadlock, a pseudonymous mailing-list contributor may have presented a way out."
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/lates…
"Segregated Witness (SegWit), the Bitcoin protocol upgrade proposed by the Bitcoin Core development team, was originally designed to activate via the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol 9 (BIP 9) standard, a hash-power signalling mechanism."
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bip-1…
"A segment of the Bitcoin community is preparing a user activated soft fork (UASF), using Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP148).

If they go through with it, there could be two types of “Bitcoin” on and after August 1st..."
bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed…
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