That is the old deployment of SegWit as a soft fork with a 95 percent activation threshold. Maxwell noted that such change can’t be made until the old deployment expires.
The proposal suggests a major change in the activation mechanism, which brings down the 95 percent activation threshold to 80 percent. More importantly, both Corallo and Maxwell emphasized that the proposal is highly unrealistic because of its timeframe. However, Bitcoin Core developers Matt Corallo and Greg Maxwell immediately went on to criticize the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement proposal due to the lack of consultation with the Core developers and contributors within the open source Bitcoin development community. This is a very important moment for the ecosystem with this solution setting the new chapter for the Bitcoin technology.” BitFury, along with vast majority, is fully supporting this historic decision. “We are glad that consensus has been finally reached. In a statement, Valery Vavilov, the CEO of BitFury, one of the leading Bitcoin miners which participated in the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement, said: The statement revealed that companies have agreed to activate SegWit at an 80 percent activation threshold and execute a 2 MB hard fork soon after that in order to scale the Bitcoin network. On May 23, Digital Currency Group (DCG) released the first official statement of the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement established at Consensus 2017. Bitcoin Core developers have criticized the Bitcoin Scaling Agreement presented by Digital Currency Group and 56 other companies, which represent approximately 83 percent of hashing power, to deploy Segregated Witness (SegWit) by September and execute a 2 MB hard fork six months thereafter.
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