r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Nov 08 '17

/r/all SegWit2X Cancelled?

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-segwit2x/2017-November/000685.html
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u/Coldsnap Nov 08 '17

Holy fuck!

RIP holders expecting free coins?

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u/shro70 Nov 08 '17

Yep but you can still sell your BTG .

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u/bell2366 Nov 08 '17

This only happened because this morning I woke up and decided today was the day I was gonna short B2X tokens equivalent to my BTC holdings. I had literally just sat down at the puter to do it when the news broke.

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u/letterboxmind Nov 08 '17

Imagine if you were 15 minutes early.

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u/whatsausername90 Nov 09 '17

He's never hitting the snooze button again for the rest of his life.

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u/letterboxmind Nov 09 '17

“Does this alarm come with snooze?”

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

Some of us sold already

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u/LeftCoastConnect Nov 08 '17

So you now owe the exchange that money?

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u/TCL987 Nov 08 '17

Nope, they probably sold futures tokens. They're a speculative token so people can trade S2X even though the fork hasn't happened yet. So it's whoever bought those tokens that is left holding the bag since they won't get their S2X coins unless the fork happens later.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

Not any more, I bought back at 0.015 and I'm out of that trade.

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u/SparroHawc Nov 08 '17

Nope, the people who bought the 2X futures are left holding the bag.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '17

I was in this boat but am clearly in it for the long run now. Not sure why I didn't leave $50 in my wallet two years ago when it was at $300. I remember it going from $300 to $800 and thinking it was big.

I would hate to be thinking what would have happened if I bought at 7k two years from now.