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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The Blocksize Debate & Concerns
by
ziiip
on 27/06/2016, 00:21:50 UTC

I’m saying your point wasn’t sufficiently sharpened.

Malleability isn’t an actual problem for most applications. Where it is a problem, for LN type payment contracts, it can be fixed by segwit, which they will use. So, while you declared a true statement in the snapshot of today, you didn’t follow with what that means for us… which explains the blunt tip of your reply.  

If malleability is not an actual problem, then what is segwit good for? A scalability solution? At the end of the day someone still has to relay segwit transactions. Why should we need to run a relay network node and a bitcoin network node? Is there any incentive to run a Lightning Network node?

Edit: I understand that segwit provides the possibility for things like payment channels etc. But why is it being touted as a scaling solution for BITCOIN, knowing that segnet and Bitcoin are two different things. I think the topic of this thread is about The BITCOIN blocksize debate unless i misread the title. . .