Sorry. I know I am technically slow to you but the least you can do is to encourage the learning process. I also know I do not have to understand what goes on "under the hood". But what can I do? There interest is there.
I wouldnt have come down so hard on you, except that you asked again
exactly what achow101 had already answered in detail. Why did you bother asking the first time, if you did not intend to read the answers?
DooMADs high-level explanation is well done, if you just want to get the general feel of how Segwit works.
However, speaking only for myself, Im not interested in [encouraging] the learning process. People who really want to learn, will start by studying everything they canbefore they ask questions. And people who really want to learn, will not be stopped by anything; they dont need to be encouraged. I am reminded of an anecdote[1] about a professor who once told a hapless freshman, Youre not smart enough and youre not working hard enough. I think that is a suitable answer for many questions. Deserving students will take the hint; and those who dont have it in them will be saved much trouble.
1. From Philip Greenspun? I cant find it now.
The original bitcoin was plain and simple - there are blocks, there are transactions in the blocks, that's it. Now there is SegWit and looks like no one understands what does it mean. If all TX info is still in blocks, what was the point of segwit if transactions are still there. If the TX information is outside of the blocks from now on where is the rest?
"You are dumb and don't understand and it's okay" is not an answer - it means that you have no idea what's actually going on.
Thats an idiotic non-argument. Tell me, Valle, if you understand the following technologies which you use every day; I guarantee that you will get zero for seven here:
0. The transistor, in its present-day integrated-circuit implementations measured in nanometers
1. Lasers
2. The Global Positioning System (GPS)
3. The secp256k1 elliptic curve cryptography algorithm used in the original Bitcoin, and used now
4. The past two decades of research in TCP congestion control algorithms
5. The metallurgy and materials science used to produce modern steels (hint: much different from steels produced 50 years ago!)
6. The virtual memory management code in your operating systems kernel
The technologies I named above are much more difficult to understand than Segwit (!). The technologies above are things which
I dont fully understandI mean, not
really, not according to my own standard of understanding. But it is okay for me to not understand them. It would
not be okay for me to pass an opinion about their technical merits, without understanding them.
The fact that I do not understand them, does not mean that scientists and engineers who work with them daily have no idea whats actually going on.
Bitcoin engineering is hard. Scaling
anything is hard. Plain and simple is not a technical argument. If you are too dumb to understand the technologies involved, then no, you are not entitled to an opinion. Ill-informed opinions are worse than worthless, since they are nothing more than hot air which wastes the valuable time of people whose opinions actually mean something.