Daily Roundup – August 16, 2017

According to CoinDesk, the developers behind the SegWit2x scaling proposal for Bitcoin plan to announce a firm date for the hard-forking portion of the plan today. At this time, the plan is to run software for the purposes of increasing the block size limit via a hard fork at block 494,784.
According to ZDNet, the Petya ransomware attack from earlier this year could cost shipping giant Maersk as much as $300 million. These predicted losses were found in the company’s second quarter financi