The saga began when Lee publicly challenged SegWit2x developer Jeff Garzik, ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees, and Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert, all SegWit2x proponents, to trade him 250 BTC from the original bitcoin blockchain for 250 BTC from the SegWit2x blockchain following the hard fork. At current exchange rates, this wager equates to more than $1 million.
But Roger Ver did not stop there. His tweet unleashed a flurry of similar offers, three of which he accepted. As he announced on reddit, he will trade 1,000 non-SegWit2x BTC (worth more than $4 million) to Charlie Lee, BitGo CTO Ben Davenport, Chaincode Labs co-founder Alex Morcos, and crypto economist Tuur Demeester, each of whom will purportedly stake 250 coins from the SegWit2x blockchain..
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