[bitcoin-dev] Some real-world results about the current Segwit Discount

Sergio Demian Lerner sergio.d.lerner at gmail.com
Wed May 10 15:25:27 UTC 2017


Jaja. But no shit. Not perfect maybe, but Bitcoin was never perfect. It has
always been good enough. And at the beginning it was quite simple. Simple
enough it allowed gradual improvements that anyone with some technical
background could understand. Now we need a full website to explain an
improvement.
But this is becoming more and more out of topic.


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Matt Corallo <lf-lists at mattcorallo.com>
wrote:

> I'm highly unconvinced of this point. Sure, you can change fewer lines
> of code, but if the result is, lets be honest, shit, how do you believe
> its going to have a higher chance of getting acceptance from the broader
> community? I think you're over-optimizing in the wrong direction.
>
> Matt
>
> On 05/09/17 20:58, Sergio Demian Lerner wrote:
> > I agree with you Matt.
> > I'm artificially limiting myself to changing the parameters of Segwit as
> > it is..
> >
> > This is motivated by the idea that a consensual HF in the current state
> > would have greater chance of acceptance if it changes the minimum number
> > of lines of code.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Gregory Maxwell <greg at xiph.org
> > <mailto:greg at xiph.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Matt Corallo
> >     <lf-lists at mattcorallo.com <mailto:lf-lists at mattcorallo.com>> wrote:
> >     > at beast.
> >
> >     Rawr.
> >
> >
>
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