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Re: [POLL] Possible scaling compromise: BIP 141 + BIP 102 (Segwit + 2MB)
by
franky1
on 11/03/2017, 13:26:03 UTC
segwit is not the compromise

activating segwit solves nothing.
moving people to segwit keys after activation is then a 'percentage of solution'

never a complete 100% solving bugs, or never 100% fixing or never 100% boosting. because even after activation segwit will still be contending against native key users

also the 4mb segwit weight is not utilised.
AT VERY BEST the expectation is 2.1mb.. the other 1.9mb would be left empty.
segwit cannot resegwit again to utilise the 1.9mb extra weight.

the extra weight would be (from reading core/blockstream plans) with bloat data to include confidential commitments appended onto the end of a tx. (not extra tx capacity) to bloat a tx that would have, without confidential commitments been alot leaner



segwit also turns into a 2 tier network of upstream 'filters' and downstream nodes. rather than a equal network of nodes that all agree on the same thing.

for the reddit crew.. in simple terms. segwit fullnode = full data.. downstream= 'tl:dr' nodes