Different stories on how the Segwit2x hard fork will play out

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Following the hard fork, ~70% of the miners support segwit2x. Its chain is super fast. Its the greatest, best and most secure chain.

No one is using it.

No persons are transacting on-chain the days after the fork because there is no replay protection. All transactions happen on exchanges.

A lot of people sell their Bitcoin right after the fork, money flows back into altcoins. Different exchanges list either Core or Segwit2x coin as Bitcoin leading to confusion - more selling. Bitcoin has its correction.

Most nodes, consumers and exchanges agree that Core coin is the real Bitcoin. Segwit2x coin goes for around 100 dollar. People lose interest in segwit2x coin and start transacting anyway on the core bitcoin network.

Core chain is more profitable because of its higher price. Miners switch to the core chain. 1 day confirmations becomes 2 hour confirmations, becomes 10 minute confirmations again. ~ ~ ~ ~
The community will successfully hard fork to Segwit2x, price will keep climbing. Bitcoin core will lead a PoW change on the legacy chain and it'll become an altcoin with a smallish market cap. A few people will rage quit Bitcoin saying that the experiment has failed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Because ~94% of miners currently support segwit2x, the Core chain block time will jump to ~3 hours right after the hardfork.

Slowness causes the mempool and fees to explode. Core chain becomes unusable. Remaining Core supporters/users begrudgingly move to the segwit2x chain to find relief. Core chain comes to a compete halt as the last miners abandon it and the difficulty will not adjust down quickly enough. Eventually the Core and BTC1 codebases either merge or become equivalent.

Years later we wonder why there was such a community split, when in the end we all want the same thing: Bitcoin to succeed.

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Bitcoin Segwit2x has the most mining support. Bitcoin core has the most value. Chinese miners decide to 51% attack the core blockchain and steal billions of dollars. Whole crypto goes in to disarray and loses its steam for years. Only Steem survives.