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March 22, 2016, 03:15:04 AM

Theymos once said "consensus" is 95%. Or so I hear. I think we're looking forward towards the day he says "well... given as how Classic is 25% of the mined blocks... 'consensus' is now 75%! Activate Segwit unilaterally on the behalf of Bitcoin Core development team!". That way he can't bitch when 75% of the hashing network decides to implement larger block limits despite the Bitcoin Core development team.


Some of us want a capacity upgrade in April and all the other benefits of segwit. Why are so many classic supporters trying to prevent this capacity upgrade? It certainly doesn't prevent any future maxBlockSize increase; why can't we have segwit to add an effective 1.8MB to 2MB and than later increase the the effective capacity to 3.6 to 4MB?

I, for one, don't trust the more buggy and complicated solution. The core dev team is free to release Segwit whenever they want. It's up to the community to adopt or not. I don't know what game they're playing... given how they've decided not to take the simple solution that I just showed. The solution that about a third of nodes would already recognize as valid? Yeah. I'm holding out for that one, and as the mined blocks increases to 75%, I will be behind it every step of the way.

It's already hard enough to explain to my friends what a blockchain is. Now I'm going to have to explain Segwit. Great.