Quote from: sgbett on March 09, 2016, 09:13:39 PM

Fixing TX Malleability is beneficial to everyone. This *other benefits* - they include giving the ability to introduce consensus changes without hard forking. This is because we are told that a contentious hard fork is a terrible thing. How does anyone know this for sure!?

So being able to run multiple soft forks at once is a bad thing for you? Include the ability to introduce consensus changes without a HF? Source please.

Quote from: sgbett on March 09, 2016, 09:13:39 PM

Why does segregated witness change the tx fee calculation?

I don't really have an answer to this question. This might do:

Quote from: YarkoL on March 09, 2016, 09:25:06 PM

My guess: To incentivize users to upgrade into segwit.
That is the carrot, and the raising fees of regular txs, the stick.

Quote from: David Rabahy on March 09, 2016, 09:26:00 PM

The same sigop and hash limits could, in theory, be used at any block size limit.

Replacing 1 limit with another is anything, but a nice way of solving problems.