We the undersigned, agree to the following points:

We believe that transaction fees in Bitcoin are currently too high. This is having a significant negative impact on Bitcoin’s usability and future prospects. We support increasing Bitcoin’s onchain capacity

We support the activation of SegWit as soon as possible, which we believe may increase Bitcoin’s onchain capacity. (As miners we agree to flag support for SegWit)

We support a hardfork to increase the “base blocksize limit” to 2MB. i.e. 2MB of space potentially available for non-witness data

We recognize that those running economic nodes in the Bitcoin community may need to upgrade their software to ensure the hardfork is a success

We recognize that we cannot force users to upgrade their software

We understand that many in the Bitcoin community do not wish to be instructed how to behave. Therefore, as a pragmatic measure to help ensure this hardfork proposal is successful, we kindly ask members of the community to upgrade their clients such that they are compatible, if they wish to do so. However, should members of the community not wish to upgrade, we respect that decision and appreciate that this means the hardfork may not succeed

In contrast, whether one likes it or not, we recognize that a majority of miners can force the SegWit element of this proposal to succeed

We believe those running economic nodes should be given six months to upgrade their software, from the date the activation logic for the hardfork reaches the “locked in” stage

We support the use of the latest technology to ensure the hardfork is as safe as possible. We support the use of deterministic activation logic, 2-way replay protection and wipe-out protection. We believe Johnson Lau’s Spoonnet proposal fulfills the needed requirements

To add your name to the list of signatories, please email info@safehardfork.com

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