SegWit tech is great, adds super fast payments and also side chains which open a whole lot of even cooler features like better anonymity and smart contracts.
That being said, "core" developing team has been pushing it too much, but how is that bad if the tech is so good? you may ask. Well instead of letting the block size increase just a little (more than 1MB), like bitcoin did many times before, they decided bitcoin needed a whole lot of new stuff, bitcoin needed SegWit even if that meant clogging the blockchain for TWO YEARS! why? well, as they say it, the block size is too high! if we keep this pace, nobody will be able to run a full node! If only data centers run nodes, bitcoin becomes centralized!
Sure, definitely something to think about, but this argument complete ignores that :
Storage cost has been decreasing over time
other coins like Ethereum and Monero consume a LOT more storage and don't think it's a problem (for comparison, BTC blockchain is 130 GB for ~9 Years and XMR blockchain is 35GB for ~2 years).
1 year ago, half of the world had enough bandwidth to handle 25MB blocks
Finally, the most important one: SegWit doesn't actually decrease the block size
Don't get me wrong, SegWit is great, but it seems like they are pushing it too much, like if they could personally gain something out of it. If they had expanded the block size two years ago, We'd probably have a single chain with something like 8MB max block size AND SegWit.
Sorry for being a little dumb here but doesn't it just mean that the current Asics will need higher caches on them?
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