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May 23, 2017Protocol & scalingResearch & proposalsdocumented

Industry companies announce the New York Agreement

A group of Bitcoin businesses and miners backed a compromise combining SegWit activation with a later block-size increase.

The agreement, commonly called SegWit2x, sought to end a long-running dispute over transaction capacity. It was influential but was not a consensus change adopted through Bitcoin Core's normal review process.