miner using asicboost or planning to, see SegWit like a lost of $100M earning / year.. Enought to pay a lot of propaganda trying to fork BTC otherwise than with SegWit..
IMHO, SegWit is the way to go for now, BU is incentived by a lot of propaganda, motivated by prifit over BTC survival.
I bet in each thread where those subject are written about, there is at least few paid user/troll to demonize SegWit and promote BU.
Do you know about moderators and cencorship here and in reddit ? <-- this may make my post disapear
Moderators seem to be taking a neutral viewpoint in this forum subsection.
Don't forget, there is propaganda going on in both sides. Core -> Blockstream -> DCG -> +funding from financial sector actors means the core propaganda machine is well funded. DCG owns some bitcoin new sites. So what you have said, the reverse could also be claimed. According to Forbes, one of DCG's investors is Mastercard. Why? Is it not a well known corporate tactic to buy out the competition and shut it down? Are they wanting to take a stake in BTC's success, or would they be happy to see it destroyed? I don't know what Mastercard's true intentions are.
Mining is now an industrial activity. These people tend to plan over long life cycles, so are incentivised by long term gains, not short term profits. It takes a long time to design, manufacture and deploy the next generation ASIC.
In the end, read the BTC white paper and decide whether you agree with its vision or not. If not, create an altcoin - it will be more successful than BTC if it is a better vision. You have to consider who is trying to change BTC's original design, and what tactics are being used to attempt to do this.
