Post
Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: The Barry Silbert segwit agreement with >80% miner agreement.
by
AngryDwarf
on 23/05/2017, 05:53:01 UTC
That's a lot of DCG portfolio companies disagreeing with the road map put forward by the other DCG portfolio company, BS.

But what is the point of segwit if you are going to do a hard fork anyway? The whole point of segwit is that it masquerades hard fork functionality through a soft fork, so if hard forks can work safely (Monero hasn't blown up yet, nor Dash or Ethereum*), then the functionality provided by segwit can be implemented in a cleaner manner with a HF.

*Ethereum has hard forked many times, only a contentious one ended up with a permanent split chain.