The controversial Segwit2x scalability proposal was officially canceled in August, but that does not mean that its old developer is giving up keeping the code base available.
In fact, Jeff Garzik, better known as CEO of Bloq, who started the project, now believes that his earlier work can be revived in a way that promotes interoperability among the increasingly fragmented set of protocols (see: bitcoin , bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold, bitcoin god). And in a new interview, he revealed that he is working on the upcoming software updates, called BTC1.
While he admits he is not sure how successful his work will be, Garzik believes he is bound to unify a bitcoin developer community.
Garzik says:
"I hope that joining multiple networks into one software, in some way, attracts multiple developers from multiple communities."
The BTC1 code is associated with Segwit2x, an attempt to change the rules of the bitcoin protocol, proposed by companies and miners at a meeting in New York in May, the agreement required that the block size parameter be increased to 2MB, at the same time as presses for an update called Segregated Witness, designed to improve and expand the bitcoin block size.