This article is well worth reading, especially if you have some education (even informal) in physics. I think it provides a valuable perspective on the BIP-110 debate as well, regardless of which side you're on. It certainly helped me, a relative newcomer, understand SegWit better.
There is a certain brand of "bitcoin through the lens of physics" writing that tends towards crackpottery and abstraction to the point of nonsense, but this is not that. Highly recommend.
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