@tek,
LOL now you can fud.There is no huge scaling fix, segcrap moved witness data out of the 1MB file , the file is still limited to 1 MB, no matter what.
Which means by removing the witness data , you may have up to 60% of the 1MB file free.
And that is only if all of the witness data is using segwit addresses, if any uses the nonsegwit addresses they decrease that 60% much lower.
Segwit will be a theoretical Max of 1.7MB File size (1MB fixed+~
.7MB segwit witness data) according to Core own records.
Lightening Network is Offchain Transactions , totally a waste of time, Exchanges could provide offchain transactions without all of these shenanigans.
Nothing in segwit or LN do anything to stop spam transactions.
As they can't tell a normal transactions from a spam transactions.
All they do is raise the fees, and they did that before segwit activated.
And the so called Malleability Problem was caused by Core Devs when they changed Bitcoin to no longer process transactions in order, but allowed higher fees to jump ahead. And it has been an issue for years they never worried about fixing until now.
By the way a non-segcrap solution to the malleability issue is Flexible Transactions.
https://zander.github.io/posts/Flexible_Transactions/╥Aztek
I never said segwit or anything fixes spam transactions just that things like this will bring BCH to a halt too except there will be the chance of many more empty blocks being mined due the the vast increase in processing time required to verify the increased block size no body knows its not tested
I guess exchanges are the best bet and im sure everyone that had funds in MTgox and BTC-e and all the other failed or hacked exchanges etc will agree with you
LN is much safer think of it as a bit like the tor network a transaction goes in one end and comes out the other you don't know how it got there and which path it took you just know it jumped through a web of nodes and all the nodes know is to pass it onto the next they do not know where it originated or if it is the first or last hop
If a node goes down, becomes rogue etc then it will just take another route