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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by xiphias on Sunday October 08, 2017 @12:34PM (#15428821)
As far as I see from the github activity, now that SegWit is activated, the developers are putting much more effort to finishing.

Anyways you're right that maybe I was a bit too optimistic. Bitcoin is getting popular as a store of value faster than it can handle the scale of being an easy-to-use currency. The blocksize drama will probably keep on going :(

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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by the_stc on Sunday October 08, 2017 @01:03PM (#15428971)
What does SW activation have to do with it? Why not have it ready to go, wait for the flip, enable. Or deploy it on a testnet. Or on LTC?
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Re:No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users ... by AgentME on Sunday October 08, 2017 @01:39PM (#15429106)
People weren't even sure if SW was going to activate. Who wants to do a lot of work on a system (LN) that might not ever be usable?
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