LN can't come soon enough. Judging from the testnet clients there's still quite some work to be done, but once the kinks have been worked out things should get interesting.
Well they kind of have to. Strike while the iron is hot, as they say. Bitcoin is probably at its most vulnerable right now, and this might be their only chance to win converts. Him and Jihan Wu are also in a race against time to squeeze all that they can from Bitcoin Cash before the Lightning Network completely renders it obsolete. I just hope the Lightning Network really works that well, and that it arrives soon. Things are really getting out of hand.
The clock is definitely ticking for BCH right now.
Short to mid-term I can imagine BCH getting scarily close to BTC in terms of market cap.
Long term I don't see much of a future in it: Either BCH becomes the victim of its own scaling approach, or people lose interest due to all the other shiny alts promising riches and scalability.
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I disagree that saying with saying "Bigger Blocks = Centralization". there is always a middle ground that we can follow. it doesn't have to be increase to 8 MB and it doesn't have to be staying at 1 MB.
Note that SegWit blocks can effectively reach up to 4 MB in size. That's kind of a middle ground.
with that said I am very excited and scared about the future of bitcoin for now. with the speed that SegWit adoption has, you can expect LN to have somewhat similar speed. the same services like Coinbase that are blocking SegWit will also block LN. and it may even take a year to reach an acceptable adoption level.
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SegWit adoption has indeed been underwhelming, to say the least. If SegWit were more widespread we probably wouldn't even discuss Bitcoin's scalability issues right now. Here's hoping that LN will see a better launch.