1 2017-06-13 19:18:31 <earlz> What exactly is the purpose of WITNESS_SCALE_FACTOR in regards to sigop counts?
2 2017-06-13 19:28:32 <arubi> sigops in non witness scripts cost x4 towards the 80k sigops limit in a block
3 2017-06-13 19:28:44 <arubi> well, in a segwit block.  currently it's capped at 20k sigops
4 2017-06-13 19:36:54 <arubi> earlz, if your question is why do segwit sigops cost less, it's because they're way easier to compute and don't explode into a 20gb beast
5 2017-06-13 22:52:01 <earlz> arubi: so basically non-segwit blocks have a sigop limit of 20K, but when segwit is activated, the limit is 80K, but non-segwit ops cost x4 (ie, can still only do 20K non-segwit sigops)