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Bitcoin is about to undergo a split.

The so-called hard fork, which has the potential to create two blockchains, each with its own set of coins, brings to a head a three-year-long battle between two factions who’ve been warring over a seemingly technical question over how to increase the amount of transactions the blockchain can process per second.

Whether or not that divorce becomes permanent or not is the $100 billion question.

The two sides have been duking it out on Twitter, Slack channels and email lists, and though certain indicators look bad for each one, neither bloc is backing down.

“I don’t think it will cause havoc at all,” said Mike Belshe, one of the developers working on the new fork of Bitcoin, on the latest episode of my podcast, Unchained (Google Play, iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio).

In the episode, representing those against the so-called SegWit2x hard fork, which should split off on or around November 16, is Bitcoin protocol developer Matt Corallo. He disagreed with the process by which the decision to hard fork was made: “There is no discussion. As Mike said, this New York agreement [to do the SegWit2x hard fork] was pretty much a declaration. It said this change is happening. … This is fundamentally incompatible with the process that is Bitcoin core.”

Plus, some exchanges are offering so-called chain split tokens, which function as futures markets, and those indicate the vast majority of community support is against the hard fork as well. Across multiple exchanges, the 2x tokens are trading at around 15% of the current value of a Bitcoin, while the 1x tokens are trading at around 85%.

Despite the seeming lack of community support, Belshe would not name any particular threshold at which his side would call off the hard fork. In fact, because the change his faction is working on contains two technical changes — one called SegWit, and the other an increase in the block size limit from 1MB to 2MB — and because the first part of the plan already occurred in August, he said, “it’s already activated.”

He also noted that the volume on the chain split tokens is a very thin $2 million a day and so dismissed the idea that they were representative of the community. Corallo rebutted that any hesitation people feel about putting their Bitcoins on exchanges should afflict both sides equally, and so the difference may still indicate how little support the 2x side has.

One place where the 2x chain is likely to have a lot of support, however, is from the miners who run the network. Their support has been north of 75% since last July. Assuming that the 2x chain begins with a majority of the current hash power, the 1x chain will be vulnerable to attack.

However, Corallo shrugged off the idea that a miner would find it worth it to attack the minority chain. In the hypothetical scenario that the 1x chain begins with 15% of current hash power, he said, “You have to take 15% of the hash power globally that you have and attack this chain instead of mining something useful, and if your attack works, all this money you spent on mining these blocks is useless, and that is a ton of money to throw down the drain to make your voice heard.”

He also noted that a previous fork of Bitcoin created in August called Bitcoin Cash had not yet been attacked.

Tune in to the episode (Google Play, iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or TuneIn Radio, web) to hear how the potential hard fork has opened up a number of questions around what the true definition is of Bitcoin — whether the definition of the white paper is best or whether price determines what is the true Bitcoin — whether or not Bitcoin Cash is going to be the ultimate winner, and whether or not censorship on the Bitcoin subreddits has influenced people’s views on the matter.

Plus, they give their best post-hard fork predictions and discuss whether or not having more women involved in the process would have prevented this incredibly expensive game of chicken.