I posted last week about the debate between the SegWit2x Bitcoin update and the threat of a soft fork.
Since then a number of important things have happened.
BIP91 locked in on Thursday and and yesterday BIP91 enforcement was activated.
That means that SegWit is now active on the Bitcoin network.
This is a big deal because the most contentious protocol change in the history of Bitcoin, the introduction of SegWit, has finally happened.
The SegWit2x road map is not complete yet, as the next step will be to introduce a block size increase.
Jeff Garzik, who has been leading the SegWit2x implementation, has a good interview up on Coindesk explaining all of this and more.
Bitcoin has a lot of great things about it. As Jeff says in the interview, it is by far the most secure blockchain. But it’s developer community has had a hard time finding consensus and moving forward together.
SegWit2x is an opportunity for that to change. And I am encouraged by that.
