bitcoin needs to go mainstream but it cannot go
Doesn't need "mainstream", just organic growth would do me.
The corporations and companies are in favor of increasing the block size to handle the increasing number of transactions. The massive consumer adoption and bitcoin moon moment is not going to happen without this change.
I am also in favour of a blocksize increase. It could have been a small increase introduced by Core. But any mention of such logic is scoffed at as Classic shilling. (yeah classic rekt thread full of childish presumption, self rightiousness)
1mb as a "limit" it's quite ridiculous.
Miners are against increasing block size since it affects their profits, they feel shameful to tell this , so they identify themselves as vanguards of bitcoin principles such as decentralization, as it favors large centralized miners. A classic example of how self interest can hamper the very own thing that they are working upon. Developers also join this bandwagon.
Not sure that is correct. Miners will follow the profit, there are other ways. Sudden change is not an impossibility.
Could it be that satoshi had envisioned this crisis long before? or did he design it in such a way that this crisis ensures bitcoin does not go mainstream and bitcoin remains a low player, very much suitable for criminal activities alone?
Didn't he foresee how sudden consensus in a crisis could be the norm?
Core's segwit imposed as a soft fork is an attack on bitcoin and will be exposed as such.
Miners are playing ball with Core atm, but will not hang around in "a real crisis".
(coming soon either via stoneage block congestion or segwit bugs. not sure what may come first)
If the only option out of the next price collapse is Classic, so be it. The miners will have no option.