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

[Sergio Demian Lerner <sergio.d.lerner@gmail.com>]

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I'm not advocating. I'm mediating.


This is out of

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Matt Corallo <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>
wrote:

> I highly disagree about the "not shit" part.  You're advocating for
> throwing away one of the key features of Segwit, something that is very
> important for Bitcoin's long-term reliability! If you think doing so is
> going to somehow help get support in a divided community, I don't
> understand how - more likely you're only going to make things significantly
> worse.
>
> On May 10, 2017 11:25:27 AM EDT, Sergio Demian Lerner <
> sergio.d.lerner@gmail.com> wrote:
> >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@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@xiph.org
> >> > <mailto:greg@xiph.org>> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >     On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Matt Corallo
> >> >     <lf-lists@mattcorallo.com <mailto:lf-lists@mattcorallo.com>>
> >wrote:
> >> >     > at beast.
> >> >
> >> >     Rawr.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
>

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