As it became known from the appeal of developers and persons who somehow had a relationship with the project, the expected SegWit2x in mid-November is canceled.

The corresponding appeal was distributed by Mike Belsh (BitGo), Ventses Casares (Xapo), Cihan Vu (Bitmain), Jeff Garzik (chief developer of SegWit2x), Peter Smith (Blockchain. info) and Eric Vorkhes (ShapeShift).

"The Segwit2x initiative began in May with the simple goal of increasing the block size and improving the scalability of bitcoin. At that time, the bitcoin community was in crisis after almost 3 years of difficult discussions. The consensus on SegWit (Segregated Witness - ForkLog protocol) with the support of about 30% of the miners seemed nothing more than a mirage. The first success of Segwit2x was expected in August, when the deadlock was overcome and the activation of SegWit was quickly and successfully implemented, "the appeal says..

As noted further, since then, the development team has directed its efforts to the second part of the project: increasing the block size to 2Mb.

"Our goal was a smooth bitco upgrade. But, while we adhere to a firm belief in the need to increase the size of the bloc, there are more important things that we believe in: the preservation of the community unit. Unfortunately, it is quite obvious that on this day we could not come to a sufficiently strong consensus regarding the increase in the size of the block. Continuing further movement in this direction, we would split the community and prevent the growth of bitcoin. This was never the goal of Segwit2x ».

At the same time, the authors of the appeal consider it necessary to pay attention to the fact that the issues of increasing the network capacity within the existing block will require an inevitable solution.

"When this happens, we hope that the community will unite and find a solution, possibly through an increase in the size of the bloc. Up to this point, we are suspending our plans for a future upgrade to 2Mb ".

"We want to thank everyone who contributed constructively to Segwit2x, regardless of whether they were" for "or" against ". Your efforts are what makes bitcoin great. Bitcoin remains the best form of money that humanity has ever seen, and we remain committed to the idea of ??its protection and growth throughout the world ".