I'm sorry, but I can not understand it. I do not understand the logic behind that.
I know that it is very annoying to quote Satoshi, but his original idea was that anyone could make a transansation with another, without the need of a third party; He even talked about small payments. I understand that his words are not absolute truths, and that he may also have made mistakes, but, that is far from wanting to convert bitcoin into a tool of a new plutocracy, in a type of money that only new oligarchs can use. That's what I have trouble understanding.
And maybe they are right, maybe it does not collapse, and we see the birth of a new economy and oligarchy, but not different from the previous ones in ethical terms.
The problem is, the world is one of INSTANT GRATIFICATION. People like you are not patient. Right now BTC is not good as a means of micro transactions. It is better as a store of wealth.
Give bitcoin another 5+ YEARS. The internet was not built in a day.
There are very few people in the world that don't want to see bitcoin be able to be used as all sorts of things. But its going to take time.
If you are so impatient that you can't wait, go invest all your money in some altcoin and pray they can figure it all out more quickly for you.
You're right. It is perhaps the impatience, and the anguish of seeing how the large fees are gradually exempting users and cases of use (I say this since I was dedicated to resell retail bitcoins).
And it seems to me (I may be wrong, but it is my opinion) that many of these problems could be avoided with a simple increase in size; a solution that we currently have in our hands. We are not even talking about 1GB blocks. I'm talking about an increase that can avoid problems, traffic jams, dislikes caused by the congestion of the network, while the second layers, LN, etc. arrive.
But, independent of that - since my intention is not to discuss whether it is good or bad to increase the block size -, I am tired of seeing the insistent attacks on the same people and the use of the same arguments. Okay, we all know how nefarious they are. But there is a real problem, that was my point, and there is no constructive talk about that.
And no, I would not invest in another currency. I entered into bitcoin for philosophical convictions, because I believe in its political and economic project; and that can not be found in another currency.
No
I am sorry.
I mistook you for our garden variety troll, and I apologize. I see now that you have an actual concern, one I share as a matter of fact.
You bring up a valid point. I can see how my attitude displayed above could be seen as every bit as distasteful as the bigblocker "if you don't have $20,000 [to spend on a full node] to help this network then fuck you".
I sincerely wish that the scaling debate could have remained civil...but this is the world we live in, and I am not prepared to cede control of the potentially most liberating technology ever conceived to the current big block cabal.
Yes, a microtransaction crypto implementation would be nice, perhaps Litecoin, perhaps L2/offchain solutions...but not shoddy, untested and hastilly implemented code on THIS blockchain...NO, the market has said no.
LOL. I can sound like a troll product of my bad language, but my concern is real. I appreciate your response.
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