Miners did coordinate to change BTC rules (but failed) - Ne…

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Miners did coordinate to change BTC rules (but failed)
- New York Agreement (SegWit2x): Major businesses and most mining pools signed an agreement to hard fork to 2 MB blocks in 2017. See signatories and analysis: https://www.bitmex.com/blog/the-segwit2x-hardfork-part-1-the-supporters-and-opponents
- The planned hard fork was cancelled due to lack of broad consensus and pushback from users/economic nodes: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/segwit2x-backers-cancel-plans-for-bitcoin-hard-fork/