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Blockstream engineer Rusty Russell has publicly stated his support for SegWit via a user-activated soft fork (UASF), saying the current scaling impasse is “his fault.”

In a Medium post published Saturday, the Bitcoin Core contributor said he had not foreseen miner reactions while developing BIP-8.

“I chose the state machine to timeout activation after one year,” he wrote.

Read more here: http://bitcoin.xyz/blockstream-engineer-rusty-russell-publicly-stated-support-segwit-via-user-activated-soft-fork-uasf-saying-current-scaling-impasse-fault/