SegWit *is* a block size increase. Pretty much every developer in the bitcoin co...

lawn · on Feb 12, 2017

> Pretty much every developer in the bitcoin community supports SegWit.

Only in the censored outskirts. I recommend everyone to read John Blocke's articles: https://medium.com/@johnblocke/the-importance-of-clear-defin... https://medium.com/@johnblocke/its-not-the-censorship-resist...

nadaviv · on Feb 12, 2017

- 105 businesses and projects from the Bitcoin space support SegWit and are working on implementing it in their products: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/

- 54 bitcoin developers signed the "capacity increase roadmap" published by Bitcoin Core: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases

- 45 companies and individuals signed in support of Bitcoin Core: https://bitcoincore.org/en/supporters/

- 85% of the nodes on the network are running Bitcoin Core: https://coin.dance/nodes/share

All of that due to censorship in one subreddit, while there are multiple other forums that people talk in? I have to say, that's quite impressive.

jerguismi · on Feb 12, 2017

Impressive numbers! Bad luck the only metric that happens to matters, miner vote, is still below 25% and seems to be going slightly down...

http://bitcoin.sipa.be/ver9-10k.png

simulx · on Feb 15, 2017

No, actually, it's not safe to vote for a fork until a large percentage of nodes are on board. Miners are doing their job and waiting for the community first. It took me 4 months to upgrade my nodes because I'm not really "in the business" like I used to be. Probably a lot of other people are just slow too.

pmorici · on Feb 12, 2017

The censorship isn't just in /r/bitcoin it also happens on the dev mailing list, on the bitcoin.org website, and on the BitcoinTalk forum. BitcoinTalk, /r/bitcoin, and bitcoin.org are controlled by the same person.