SegWit2x appears to have made an enemy of South Korea’s Seoul Bitcoin Meetup, which has confirmed its “staunch opposition”.
Members of the Seoul Bitcoin Meetup have released a formal statement opposing November’s SegWit2x Bitcoin hard fork.
A copy of the open letter uploaded to Medium Thursday confirms the “staunch opposition” of the group, the largest in South Korea, with 1600 members.
“We are confident that BTC, the legacy chain, will not only survive this fork, but continue to flourish as the dominant Bitcoin network,” its introduction states.
“The purpose of this letter is simply to minimize the damage that gets done this November. We urge you, the signatories of the NYA, to reconsider and withdraw your support.”
The community is the latest part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem to adopt a formal stance on SegWit2x, which is causing increasing divisions among supporters and detractors.
The Meetup identifies four “main concerns” with the planned hard fork of Bitcoin, due to come into being Nov. 18.
Summarized, these are:
- “The manner in which the agreement was made goes against the very ethos of Bitcoin[;]
- Segwit2x incurs a large risk, but wastes most of the opportunities afforded by a properly planned and executed hard fork[;]
- The developers and supporters of Segwit2x have proceeded in a needlessly careless manner which compounds the risks involved[;]
- Replay protection is being handled in an unacceptably irresponsible manner.”
“We will be advising our local community to avoid using the services of companies that support the NYA, and seek out alternatives instead,” the letter concludes.
The same day, major mining pool F2Pool stopped signalling SegWit2x in line with plans previously announced which would end the practice at its next server reboot.
Looks like @f2pool_wangchun rebooted their server and are no longer signaling Segwit2X. #Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/vhA33PLkfG
— WhalePanda (@WhalePanda) October 12, 2017
The Meetup commended F2Pool for the move, along with four other industry players which have taken an opposing position on the fork.
