Erik Voorhees: SegWit should be activated

[andron8383]

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Segwit is already live on the Bitcoin testnet.
Even some LN payments are going through
Don't be so pessimistic.

95% hash power to activate it - THIS IS JOKE
in real elections you have usually 50%/50%...
and here you want 95% THIS IS JOKE
this is born to fail man.
Same time loooong before BTC ETH will have their own LN clone (Rainen)...
And gain BTC will be prooven as win3.11 system not really reliable to use as main base of something.
When even BU and mines don't care to solve bug problems - malleability.
Who will give a shit to such attitude in long run.

Don't call me prophet but chart shows that changes are comming.
http://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentage

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[Pab]

Sooner all that debate will finish better,it can be like that longer time,etherum is better,devs are submiting his proposals and community talk about it and vote with his wallets,Bitcoin need to comebaci on decntralisation road,two btc network it will be nighthmare,i will escape if that scenario occure.Now there is only stupid talks btc core that bu that,like angry kids who are jalous about toy.And some new proposal are appearing creating more sensless talks

[FandangledGizmo]

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Segwit is already live on the Bitcoin testnet.
Even some LN payments are going through
Don't be so pessimistic.

95% hash power to activate it - THIS IS JOKE
in real elections you have usually 50%/50%...
and here you want 95% THIS IS JOKE
this is born to fail man.
Same time loooong before BTC ETH will have their own LN clone (Rainen)...
And gain BTC will be prooven as win3.11 system not really reliable to use as main base of something.
When even BU and mines don't care to solve bug problems - malleability.
Who will give a shit to such attitude in long run.

Don't call me prophet but chart shows that changes are comming.
http://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#btc-percentage

You're right about the 95% being a serious design error.

However I wouldn't worry too much about transaction count. Bitcoin is the digital gold, the reserve currency of the Internet. It can be used less and cost more to transact than competitors provided it stays sturdy, safe, reliable and immutable.

The era of profitable blockchain applications is only getting started so yes BTC relative market share could fall but as you can see it will still rise in value and has been the best performing currency vs. Gold/silver/fiat for 3 of the last 4 years. (Only BU has been able to damage BTC recently because it is anathema to what gives BTC value in the first place)

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as long as it remains 95% segwit will never, ever, ever activate.

even if you got almost everyone on board there'd still be enough miners who never check the news or simply don't care. litecoin have gone the right way about it.