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by walls 3013 days ago
So it has to go from 7 tx/sec to 7k tx/sec or it's not worth doing?
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Ajedi32 3013 days ago
No, but if you're someone who wants to see Bitcoin succeed then you probably don't want to use a scaling solution which only works if you assume Bitcoin will never achieve mainstream adoption.
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walls 3013 days ago
> you probably don't want to use a scaling solution which only works if you assume Bitcoin will never achieve mainstream adoption

But, that's exactly what happened with segwit. Why is that worth doing but increasing the block size is not?

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eklitzke 3013 days ago
The main thing Segwit fixes is transaction malleability (which is necessary for Lightning).
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Ajedi32 3013 days ago
If I recall correctly, Segwit was a prerequisite to Lightning. A block size increase is not.
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SuddsMcDuff 3013 days ago
You recall incorrectly. A malleability fix was a prerequisite to Lightning. SegWit is just one of many possible malleability fixes.
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Ajedi32 3013 days ago
Were there any other serious proposals for fixing transaction malleability without Segwit?
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