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The User Activated Softfork is an alternative activation method for softforks by flag-day instead of the version bits approach.

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What is the User Activated Softfork (UASF) proposal? How do its risks compare to hardforks?

The Bitcoin community is abuzz with discussion about shaolinfry's proposal of a UASF to activate SegWit as an alternative to the Version Bits activation. I've seen frequent and extensive discussion of the proposal and especially questions about the…
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What is it that makes BIP149 safer to activate than BIP148?

There are currently two BIPs floating to enable a "user activated softfork" of Segregated Witness. BIP148 is meant to activate by flag day on August 1st 2017 whereas enforcing nodes stop accepting blocks that don't signal readiness for…
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I run bitcoin core. What should I prepare by August 1st?

I'm not sure about UASF/BIP-148 but should I do something for the activation? Will bitcoin core dev release new version? I do support segwit by the way. My bitcoind servers are used as a provider of utxo info and accepting signed transaction to…
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When is the earliest we will see SegWit transactions on main net

I am assuming that only after SegWit activation SegWit txs will be on mainnet, what i cannot determine is the date for that event. Can anyone help? So far i have seen references to late August.
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What is UASF, BIP148, Segwit, Segwit2x?

I keep reading these terms and I don't follow this everyday. Last I heard was that segwit was suppose to solve the block size debate. What are all these new terms like segwit2x and UASF?
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Is Bitcoin centralized by mining pools?

Before going to my question, I want to make sure the difference between a full node and a miner. Below definition might be too simple, but it is enough to ask my question. A full node is to store Blockchain and validate transactions. There are…
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Does bitcoin-wallet support BIP148

Does anyone know if bitcoin-wallet on Andriod (https://github.com/bitcoin-wallet/bitcoin-wallet) supports BIP148? I've been Googling and checked their GitHub page but I can't find BIP148 mentioned anywhere.
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How to track UASF support?

It's easy to see that currently 50% of the hashrate supports Segwit. It's also simple to find that about 1000 nodes are supporting it. But I can't seem to figure out how significant that amount is, since all the total node counts are very rough…
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UASF, what do I need to do?

With the upcoming UASF activation what do I need to do to come out okay? I have my coins sitting on my Trezor in cold storage. If I just leave them as is, what happens? If I switch my Trezor to UASF, what happens? Do I get coins from both chains?…
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Does BIP148 (UASF) offer any replay attack protection?

Is there any protection against replay attacks in BIP148? Despite the popular name (UASF), it's effectively a hard fork (in the sense users with old nodes will be on a different chain), is there any protection against taking the transaction from…
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What will happen on November 15th 2017, when the Segwit proposal expires?

The time duration for the BIP-148 UASF is from August 1st to November 15th. During this time, the BIP-148 nodes will reject blocks that do not signal for Segwit. Now, after Nov. 15th, even the BIP-148 nodes would start accepting all the blocks,…
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How do we "exchange coins on one blockchain for those on the other"?

With Segwit and BIP-148 coming, I have been trying to figure out what's exactly gonna happen with Bitcoin after August 1, by watching videos and reading articles. One thing (among many others) confuses me .. Some are saying that you can exchange…
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Are exchanges tolerant of reduced transaction capacity?

In case a UASF is deployed and activated by exchanges there could be a stand-off situation in which miners mine on a different chain than exchanges. This would look like a sudden and long-lasting reduction of transaction capacity to exchanges. The…
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Bitcoin 51% majority miner attack - question on the role of user activated soft forks as defense tactic

If one mining entity has alone 52% hash power of the overall network, then this party can block transactions for example and try to "build" up a forked, longer chain while time passes, right?. As I understand this may take several weeks with only…
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as a individual miner's side, how UASF, UAHF agree or disagree is occurred?

UASF is timestamp-based method. after that time, new rules will start. but i have a few question about this. how this rules is accepted by USER? does miner program contains 'yes' or 'no' about this decision? '1' is true, and user not express any…
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