my understanding is that removing the discount would not only make channel opens more expensive,
which is like "ok fine whatever"
but it would make channel *closes and justice txs 3-4x more expensive....
there were cleaner options for fixing transaction malleability. the maxi crowd got distracted by "would you like segwit or segwit 2x" and they completely fell for it. the kind of persuasive technique that works on a child.
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