<story><title>Segwit2x Bugs Explained</title><url>https://bitcointechtalk.com/segwit2x-bugs-explained-8e0c286124bc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>danra</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s impossible to explain the Segwit2x bugs ignoring the social aspect.&lt;p&gt;The planned fork was supported by only part of the community, which would not have been a problem if it weren&amp;#x27;t for the lack of replay protection, which would have lost many people money had the fork been activated. The rationale for not having replay protection was to take over the Bitcoin network as a whole, with the lack of differentiation from the &amp;#x27;legacy&amp;#x27; Bitcoin network being seen as a feature. In other words, rich people with a lot of mining power were planning on forcing the network into accepting their own rules (with most people in the network, running SPV wallets, doing so unknowingly), and if people lose money in the process, well, that&amp;#x27;s just too bad.&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s just what touched me the most personally. There were a lot of other things in the Segwit2x process to be appalled with, such as the anti-developer culture, the infamous NYA closed meeting and general lack of transparency, and more.&lt;p&gt;Because I was disgusted with that bully approach, I did not invest any serious time reviewing the Segwit2x code changes, but instead did spend time studying, reviewing and contributing (my very small bit) to the Bitcoin Core code. I guess that other developers similarly had no drive to contribute to the Segwit2x codebase. I also think it&amp;#x27;s probable some people have found the bug&amp;#x2F;s and did not report them so as not to help bullies get their way.&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, the lack of review and testing, leading to the bugs, is not just a technical issue. Doing serious review and testing of open source code relies on support from the community, which was minimal, because very few competent developers in the space who understood what was going on wanted to help.</text></comment>
<story><title>Segwit2x Bugs Explained</title><url>https://bitcointechtalk.com/segwit2x-bugs-explained-8e0c286124bc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>delta1</author><text>For a change of this magnitude you would expect some tests that actually verify these assumptions? Or am I missing something in this PR? [1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;btc1&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;files&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;btc1&amp;#x2F;bitcoin&amp;#x2F;pull&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;files&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>