It's a difficult question to answer honestly, because most of the people who claim it "can't" go mainstream are only saying that because don't want it to go mainstream for purely selfish and greedy reasons. They want Bitcoin to only benefit the early adopters and whales. They think they can burn the drawbridge behind them now that they're "safe". An exclusive Bitcoin blockchain just for them and third party payment channels (not entirely dissimilar to Ripple) for everyone else. Those who care more about Bitcoin's utility and the disruptive potential it holds believe it can go mainstream if the elitists don't try to hijack it by artificially crippling it to further their own ends. It's not all about the price in fiat.
Hence all the forum drama. Ideals are strongly contested.
All the people who insist that Bitcoin will die a horrible death with a larger blocks always seem to conveniently forget that it originally had a 33.5MB blocksize, not 1MB. It would still be running just as fine as it is now with 33.5MB blocks and yet everyone's losing their fucking minds quibbling over 8. What's the real goal behind that drama? Greed.
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Fuck the rest of the world, I've got something that benefits me and I don't want to share". Those are the true motives at play here:
linkBecause it is my considered opinion that Bitcoin is perfect as it is and that it doesn't need to be "fixed" to provide tremendous value to humanity at large.
It's time to be greedy and defend our safe-haven
I see a fair amount of utility in having an XT fork which siphoned off a sizable number of 'bitcoiners' who are deeply ignorant about the principles of the system and are mostly MultiBitch-class users who add no value.
the peasants' desire to trade security for adoption is met with indifference/hostility/scorn from the people who matter.
Keep Bitcoin Elite!™
XIV. We all agree.
Good for you, too bad you're irrelevant. Bitcoin is about money and about power, not about opinion and social media. You can agree until you are blue in the face, that's not what makes a difference. Your public humiliation on this score - in case your shepherd be dumb enough to actually take the field and be humiliatedii - should be instructive for you.
Take notice on the why and the how you don't matter, understand why "MP doesn't cater to my idiocy which makes me want to support anything else" doesn't actually do anything, break through the shell of your own idiocy and start actually developing as a human being already. Going by your infantile behaviour this is clearly the first time you had the chance, but going by the messy state of the world around you it might actually be your last, too. Try and make the best of the very little you have at your disposal.
Bitcoin isn't for everybody.
Disgusting. Abhorrent. Bullshit.
Their argument has been backwards from the start. They're saying that people who support larger blocks want to change the way Bitcoin works and that they need to justify that change. But in reality, support for larger blocks is only ensuring Bitcoin continues to work in the same way it works now and always has done. A permissionless blockchain that's open to all. That's what we signed up for. It's the anti-fork crowd that need to justify forcing full blocks onto everyone and the
only reason they can come up with is that it guarantees security for them and no one else matters. If you only want Bitcoin to benefit early adopters and risk driving everyone else away, then oppose larger blocks. But if you want an open system that's available for anyone to use, you'll support larger blocks.
