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Re: Segwit details? SEGWIT WASTES PRECIOUS BLOCKCHAIN SPACE PERMANENTLY
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on 17/03/2016, 00:14:33 UTC
My point, perhaps poorly expressed, was that if you think these problems are 'not hard', you must have solutions in mind, no?  I'd be interested in hearing your ideas.  I am genuinely interested, not being sarcastic here.
It wasn't only me that had those solutions in mind. In fact they are already included in the "segregated witness" proposal, but without the "segregation" part. The "segregation" just splits the transaction in two parts. In fact one could come up with a deficient "segregated witness" proposal that wouldn't fix the discussed problems. They are orthogonal concepts.
 

Which solutions are you referring to here?

The same we discussed less than an hour ago; 9:20am vs. 10:10am.
The advantage of segwit is that it elegantly fixes a couple of other hard problems (malleability, O(n^2) sigops issue)
What about fixing those "other problems" (I don't want to say "hard", because IMO they aren't "hard" by themselves) without the segregation? Impossible or just not worth it?