“Basically, progress on the bitcoin protocol has ground to a halt. A complete halt. So this is a crisis period for bitcoin in that sense.”
emule, edonkey, µtorrent and other P2P file transfer is already in "halt" process of developpement ... because it work flawless on every plateform.
it's not a problem to have a great and working device when developpement inside is a mess.
if the mess work, it's perfect.
i build microprocessor for industrial process (automated) ... and you can't imagine that we can do to do a job.
the main goal is :
- process must work
- even when you switching 100 per hour, the main supply
money process do the same at this day... supply with electrical and network and it works.