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Re: Post your SegWit questions here - open discussion - big week for Bitcoin!
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-ck
on 09/02/2017, 07:32:39 UTC
Quote from: classicsucks on February 09, 2017, 05:55:11 AM
Quote from: -ck on February 07, 2017, 08:26:24 PM
Segwit IS a technological advancement, but make no mistake, any arguments about complexity being the issue versus the "simplicity" of just increasing the blocksize are a red herring and diverting attention away for why the miners are reluctant to move forwards with it.

I'm sure that you are a solid developer since you run a mining pool. Are you 100% confident that changing 4743 lines of code deep in the Bitcoin codebase won't have any issues?  And what about wallet and 3rd party software? When you add it all up, we're looking at tens of thousands of lines of code changes, which guarantees roughly 150-500 bugs (industry average) in all of this software, of which 2-5 are potentially catastrophic...

A hard fork to 2MB would involve one line of code change and some late-night sweating and swearing for a week  Lips sealed
No I can't be 100% confident by myself, but luckily we have far more developers who have been doing almost a year of actual hard testing on testnet validating its stability.

On the other hand you're also grossly exaggerating the simplicity of a hard fork by not describing the work required to make that one line of change work (it's also more than one line but that's irrelevant.)