Quote from: Yves_Oluchione on March 09, 2017, 07:00:43 PM

Quote from: Hyena on March 09, 2017, 06:47:42 PM

what you just said is not true. stop spreading lies.

Bitcoin Unlimited is much more than just block size increase - one feature at a time. The most urgent one is block size increase.

So you just admitted that the BU is just about block size increase for now Grin

You didn't answer on technical problematics : _What about the total blockchain size which will grow exponentially faster with a block size increase ?
_What will be the block size with BU ? By choice of miners ? So the security problems and immutability problems that will result ?
_I'm not saying that segwit is essential, i think it's the best solution for now but of courseall solutions could always be better Roll Eyes

but if segwit will be rejected well i wouldn't think bitcoin is dead but if the chain split or if BU become the established chain i would reconsider my position on mid-term long-term investments due to the problematics that will cause

Blockchain size is not a problem of the Bitcoin protocol. It is a technical problem that can be overcome by technical means. It is a full node implementation related issue and thus not even worth talking about. Block chain size is never going to be a problem because digital storage does not cost much at all and technically it is possible to store the block chain in a decentralized manner. Instead of every full node storing the whole copy of the block chain they could only store parts of it proportionally to their disk capacity. When every full node stores random parts of the block chain then the block chain will still exist but is simply spread over the whole network rather than duplicated on every device. We also have block chain available in the torrent network so don't worry, nothing is lost. It's just a technical issue and it can be solved. Right now there just isn't big enough incentive to solve it and for that reason full nodes are still storing full copies of the block chain.