[05-02-2017] Jameson Lopp explains why he supports SegWit

[bbc.reporter]

Who is Jameson Lopp and why should we listen to him? Was he a bitcoin contributor right from the very beginning? Sometimes we must stop to question and speculate what really their motivations are for changing sides.



The Bitcoin space has gone through few significant transformations throughout the past. There was a long-dragging debate about scalability in the past two years and it can now come to an end. One of the most prominent figures that actively took part in these debates is Jameson Lopp. He was a BitGo Engineer and provided support for XT. However, he is now a strong supporter of segregated witness, also called SegWit. He recently made a confession when a large number of Bitcoin Unlimited nodes crashed. He confessed that he lobbed RAM grenades some time back, which seem to be delivering results at the moment.

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