Quote from: JorgeStolfi on December 08, 2015, 03:25:59 AM

So, all that "concern trolling" about the terrible consequences of large blocks by Adam, Greg, and the rest of the Blockstream/Viacoin crowd was just bullshit, and they kew it. Segregated Witness will allow 4-5 MB blocks "soon"(because they will not wait for consensus, of course, but intend to deploy it in "stealth mode", aka "soft fork ). And they are all euphoric about it.

I wonder how the small-blockians who sincerely believed that bullshit are feeling now. Betrayed and duped? Probably not: like that speaker from 1984, they will swicth in mid-sentence from "blocks larger than 1 MB will kill bitcoin" to "4 MB blocks are wonderful". From "we need the fee market to support miners and push traffic to off-chain solutions" to "segregated witnesses is essential to let bitcoin to grow without running into saturation".

To be sure, Blockstreamers only now are coming to realize that an increase of the effective block size limit to 4 MB will have the unexpected and unwelcome consequence of increasing the effective block size limit to 4 MB. So Luke has already proposed to keep the 1 MB limit for the total block size, including the segregated part. And Greg, in his characteristic straightforward and honest manner, has proposed to combine SW with Adam's 2-4-8 block size limit plan, but "scaled for the effect of segregated witnesses" -- which must mean setting the nominal block size limit to 0.5-1-2 MB.

But they should not worry, since the space savings will only occur if the clients start issuing transactions in the new SW format. Which will not happen right away, if SW is deployed by soft fork. And even after the clients have upgraded, the use of SW will be optional. Will there be incentives for the clients to use it?

The Moment when you know you are on the right path when bitter bitcoin skeptics strangely take sides in consensus changes when they have no stake in the battle.

"Academic interest in bitcoin only."

Why so many emotional and bitter outbursts instead of cool, collective, or humored observances?

To those interested in a balanced and holistic way to scale and grow capacity here is a great outline--

http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-December/011865.html

Bitcoin has a bright future indeed.