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August 21, 2017, 11:31:55 AM

Most big blockers are certain that segwit is a catastrophe waiting to happen, for various reasons. That's why they believe buttcoin cash will be the winning fork.

I doubt that if they have any kind of technical knowledge or any kind of genuine attempt to grapple with the facts and the logic that they real are going to genuinely arrive at such nonsensical and ill-supported conclusions. 

It's not necessarily irrational or non-technical to expect bugs. Changing code can have unintended consequences. Personally I'll be amazed if Segwit pulls through without any glitch whatsoever - because real world testing has scenarios that can't be tested on a testnet. Even Bitcoin has had some nasty bugs over the years, including some things that are packaged into Segwit as fixes.

The irrational part is the leap of "hope" to expect a "catastrophe" that will somehow flip the balance of support. That's not how it works.