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No, Luke is saying that if chinese miners attack the chain and are successful, then the core chain will need to change PoW (otherwise with a minority of hash power it will take al long time for difficulty to adjust.)

There are three factions here-- Segwit2X and Core, who both want segwit, and Bitmain which does not want segwit and which has threatened a forcible hard fork into a bitcoin that has unlimited block size-- and they are even talking about doing an ICO and things like that:

https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...




https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6msyk5/comment/dk4...

And Luke's subsequent comment said if enough followed then it could still be called bitcoin.

Also Maxwell said he'd quit if BIP148 fails. If the soft fork fails, bitcoin will be something different.




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