2mb was bad, yet blockstreams 2017 roadmap is a whopping 5.7mb potential real data transmission per block(due to other features)
What the @#$@ are you talking about? "blockstreams 2017 roadmap"?!?!?! Where can I get a copy of this?
for a blockstream lover you seem to have never seen blockstreams roadmap that said they would finally agree to a hardfork in 2017 once they have things like confidential payment codes and other features sussed first..
i find that a real shock that your pleading ignorance to the blockstream roadmap... shame on you
And "potential"? The fact that a miner could create contrived high cost blocks is nothing new, right now miners can create blocks that take something like 20 minutes of cpu time to validate. But this sort of intentional bloat-block is almost equivalent to just delaying publication of the block. What matters for the long term system cost is the average size of blocks, not the potential for a single unusually costly one. Without segwit the unusually costly risks are just different (instead, they take the form of utxo bloat blocks or signature hashing bloatblocks). If your metric of risk is the worst case time it can take to transfer and process a block, segwit does not increase this over the current state: It does allow more data to be sent in the worst case, but segwit transactions have massively faster worst case validation. The end result is that the worst case block with segwit is exactly the same as the worst case block without, you can't use segwit transactions if you want to make a block that propagates very slowly.
segwit is perfect. (yet not even released publicly)
Segwit has been public for a long time...
Block 0 on the current segnet has a date in January, and segwit is live on testnet now.
Where is Bitcoin Classic's segwit implementation? Hell, where is their mediantimepast and CSV implementations? Even when they can just copy code from core they can't seem to keep up. If you're going to complaint about something not moving fast enough, it's not core you need to look at...
lol lol
noooo.. segwit is still in testing stage on a different network, its not part of the bitcoin main net.. so to all intense and purposes its not released publicly..
show me one person that can use REAL bitcoins on bitcoins PUBLIC LEDGER that can perform segwit..
segnet is an altcoin right now. with its own genesis block and its own chain.(dont deny it, as even you yourself said its genesis began in january)
if your going to presume that non-blockstream implementations are some kind of altcoin (usual mantra blockstreamers chant)... how about try not to pretend segnet is not an altcoin or a sandbox while trying to convince people that its a working solution that is live for bitcoiners..