Can someone give an opinion on the results or possible results of this fork?
Assuming the bugs got fixed this time around, success of the fork depends only on getting a critical mass of miners on board.
Pressure on what? Transaction backlog? Hardly, the fees are higher than they've ever been and we have 100k transactions in the mempool.
The minority of transactions use segwit, blocksize still remains a big issue, even if we now have means to cram more transactions into a block, but hardly anybody uses it.
It took pressure off of the Bitcoin Core team (and blockstream), because segwit is what's needed to get lightning to work. Then they lost interest in the second part (increasing the blocksize) and that's (partly) why it fell through.
Joop black6master • an hour ago Red flags all over. Founder has no background or education whatsoever, the business development manager is dancer, model and actress. Github was first created a couple of days ago. Accounts with these names are fishing after privatekeys on Bitcointalk etc. etc..