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to be honest, I don't know enough technical details to answer that. all I know is its a fairly significant change to the protocol that's supposed to make a big difference in the scaleability issues.

Me too, Im gonna need several sacks of rice before I can fully understand the technicalities of bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies :)

several sacks of rice...??

lol. must be some Filipino slang.

Yeah, it means, it could takes time :)