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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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Yep. Everyone's going crazy about the segwit buzz (lots of people asking "when u gonna add segwit feature" in altcoin threads) but I don't think the technical aspects are well understood (beyond "it's gonna let Bitcoin grow yuuge, absolutely yuuge")
The way I understand it, the main proponents for segwit also happen to be part of a company (blockstream) that needs segwit to function (and therefore profit). Seems like a conflict of interest to me. Like I said above, Bitcoin development is no longer about altruism, it's about egos and profits.