With no payouts to customers for the last 4 days lots of people have been wondering what has actually happened up there at crypto towers .
Well I can now reveal the truth...
Let me take you to the frozen glaciers of Iceland where Genesis keeps one of its banks of mining rigs, and I will introduce you to Keith , the newest employee , he has recently left college and has taken the first step on a new and exciting career. As the "new guy" he has been subjected to all the usual initiation rites that any apprentice starting a new job has to go through.
He laughed off being sent to get tartan paint
He twigged being sent over to stores for a long weight ( after 2 hours)
He thought that asking Gary for a left handed screwdriver was quite funny.
And showing him the box that the Internet was kept in for safekeeping was ingenious.
But one thing he wasn't going to fall for was , whatever you do , don't press this big red button.
They must think I'm an idiot he thought to himself .....
So instead of going ahead and pushing that button , he went off and developed protections for BIP 91 making sure all the servers signalled for segwit and in the process messed up the payment system.