CORE MAGAZINE September 2017 | Page 27

BlockChain News various factions of the community, some- thing that was never accomplished before the SegWit2x agreement. As for BitcoinCash, the UAHF blockchain has recently gone through a difficulty re- targeting event, reducing profitability for miners. However, there are still those who are betting on the new Bitcoin, as can be $4100-$4200 range with no huge spikes in seen through the recent mining uptick here. volume. So what caused traders to shrug off SegWit? Well, when one looks at the huge rally that has taken BTC to the $4000 mark, it’s easy to see that SegWit was al- ready being factored into the price. Given that the proposal had been locked, SegWit was pretty much a sure thing. However, the scaling debate isn’t quite over yet. What’s next for Bitcoin and BCH? Now that SegWit is “out of the way”, there is still the 2MB hard fork that will increase Bitcoin’s transaction capacity even further, bringing it up to the equivalent of 4MB. Although this isn’t a definitive solution for Bitcoin, it will allow it to accommodate the current upsurge in user base. Some members of the developer com- munity have voiced their concerns and complaints regarding the technical dan- gers and lack of planning that has been put into the SegWit2X agreement, claim- ing that it’s a rushed upgrade and that an hard fork should be better planned. However, one must also realize that there are compromises that need to be made in order to find a solution that can please 24