If he's not a troll, then how do you justify his actions here?  He entered a completely unrelated thread to start accusing me with his paranoid delusions, despite the fact that I'd quite like to see SegWit activated to see how effective it is in the real world.  But Carlton simply can't cope with anyone having a different opinion and will lash out with insults, weasel out of justifying his position, throw more insults and then play the victim when someone calls him out on it.  And that's when he's not screaming at people to fork off.  There may have been a time where he was capable of having a reasonable discussion, but now he's undeniably a troll.  I find him to be a pernicious and loathsome creature.

I can see how people have legitimate concerns over BU, because I have some too and I still believe an algorithmic proposal would be far better than this "emergent consensus" stuff.  Given the choice between some variant of BIP106 and BU, I'd go for BIP106 every time.  But I don't have that option, because even though it clearly has more merit than emergent consensus, no one seems to be developing it, which is a pity (although if there were a way to combine the two theories to balance each other out, that might work, but again, pretty unlikely to be developed).  Conversely, I can also see how some people have legitimate concerns over SegWit and Lightning, but people in this thread are almost certainly taking it to extremes.  The problem is, nearly all the these concerns, as evidenced by this thread, won't be quelled unless SegWit gets a chance to prove what it can do.  Until then, everyone will keep posting their campfire horror stories about how it's supposedly going to play out.



That's trolling, too, btw.  Insults and accusations of ill intent are Carlton's specialty, let him be the troll who does that.  I know you can do better.