Able to read just fine, thanks. SegWit will less than double the throughput.
Initially yes; it has the potential to go beyond that though.
Require a hard fork
So?
It's a Blockstream product, not Bitcoin.
LN is not a Blockstream product and it is Bitcoin. Anyone who states otherwise is either ignorant or deluded. You might have mixed up LN with sidechains.
You're marketing it as a solution to tps, don't care what the initial thinking behind it was.
Who's marketing it as a 'solution' to tps? Neither Segwit nor a 2 MB block size are a solution of any kind when it comes to transaction capacity.
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So you're telling me SegWit is not a solution to scaling, there are "possibly some smaller block size increases" [hard forks] down the line, and you still want to go through with it? Even though Bitcoin doesn't need to scale?
>LN is not a Blockstream product
Who is paying for it again? Whose entire business model hinges on it?