Segregated Witness is just another way to centralize mining. I will explain that in the future when I am ready.
... but that is a small price to pay in order to
- Malleability Fixes
- Linear scaling of sighash operations
- Signing of input values
- Increased security for multisig via pay-to-script-hash (P2SH)
- Script versioning
- Reducing UTXO growth
- Compact fraud proofs
Fixed it for you.
Gotta love the anti-segwit All Star team of Crazy Uncle Shelby, Frap.doc, and Jorge Stolfi.
It's like you guys come up with this FUD after enjoying too many Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters at Mos Eisley.
