The Bitcoin community has agreed to activate SegWit and overcome hardwork.

About an hour ago was published the release of the Digital Currency Group, led by Barry Silverton, officially announcing the agreement of the bitcoin community, regarding future updates of the Bitcoin Protocol, including the activation SegWit and hardwork. Rumors of the agreement have spread a little early, but official confirmation was not published until tonight.

The following is the translation of the text of the agreement:

We agree with this moment to maintain the following updates to the Bitcoin Protocol that will be implemented parallelno, in accordance with the proposal Segwit2Mb:

Activate Segregated Witness in achieving the support of more than 80% capacity.
To activate hardwork with the increase of the block size to 2 MB for 6 months

We will continue to promote research and development of technical decision-making mechanisms in the bitcoin community, together with the development of communication tools, to better coordinate with other ecosystem participants, as well as developing, integrating and activating sustainable solutions that improves the performance of Bitcoin.

You encourage all companies, miners, developers, and users to join us and to prepare Bitcoin to the future.

The undersigned group of companies is a critical mass of Bitcoin ecosystem. On 23 may, the proposal was supported by:

56 companies from 21 countries
83.28% hasegawas power
5.1 billion in monthly transaction volume
20.5 million bitcoin wallets

However, on may 23, the listed company has agreed to provide technical and engineering support for testing and updates, and provide support to companies engaged updates: Abra, BitClub Network, Bitcoin.com, BitFury, BitGo, Bitmain, BitPay Blockchain, Bloq, Circle, RSK Labs, Xapo.

Source bitnovosti.com