SegWit2x to occur 11/17/17

The much-debated SegWit2x hard fork was being officially canceled last week after several community leaders and a large number of miners withdrew their support due to lack of consensus. As a result, the hard fork plans were completely halted which meant that Bitcoin will not be splitting into two, as projected earlier. However, just a few hours back, there has been the latest twist in this story as Director of Comms @ Coinbase, David Farmer took it to his Medium-blog that there are still a small group of miners who are attempting to go ahead with the hard fork.

Considering the possibility of network instability in such a case and in order to protect the customer’s funds, Coinbase is likely to suspend the buying/selling of Bitcoins 2 am Pacific Time on November 17th, an hour before the fork which is projected to occur between 6am to 8am Pacific Time on November 17th. Once the fork gets initiated and confirmed, all the normal operations will resume afterward. As per the latest information available on blockchain.info, the total number of blocks mined currently shows to 494743 and the SegWit2x is scheduled to take place at 494784 which is pretty close from the existing position.