SegWit & Soft Forks & Sidechains, Oh, My! - Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin

[BitcoinXio]

Video by The Daily Decrypt:
What is 'Segregated Witness' and what's its purpose? How do soft forks work and what do they make possible? What the %^&* is a sidechain? Innovation breeds innovations, says he -- the Grecian computer scientist who knows the disastrous consequences of currency monopolization all too well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSq-58ElBzk

[johnyj]

Side chains are stupid idea as bitcoin backed alt-coin, but it just does not make any sense: Why use a bitcoin backed alt-coin when you can just use bitcoin???

[btc]

There is currently good discussion going on about segwit over at that other place

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1398994.0

rbf cpfp segwit sidechains oh my indeed