@ kurious lol, thanks for that !!
FWIW I was not mad last night, and am not now. It is what it is ... a protocol problem.
Funnily enough as I went to be last night I was thinking how an animated infomercial pretty much identical to your gif would be a great way to educate people on the differences in the way things work between XMR and BTC.
It's a great way for people to visualise the differences. The right person would have whole lot of fun making that! There are so many other angles to come in on too. I can visualise it as almost a parody.
FWIW, tx still stuck - wondering if there is actually a spam attack on BTC going on with fees being paid rather than a dust attack.
Mempool now @ 25MB, fees @ 10.3 BTC ... pretty cheap attack, especilly if half of those end up being returned anyway.
Rinse,repeat ...
This is a real life example as to why I got involved in Monero in 2014 and I why I currently only hold a nominal amount of XBT. My holdings are almost entirely XMR and CAD. The blocksize issue in Bitcoin is highly relevant to Monero because none of the proposed solutions to this issue in Bitcoin actually work when one considers the related problem of how Bitcoin is to be secured once the block reward runs out.
The reason the adaptive blocksize limit actually works in Monero is because Monero has a tail emissino. This frees the fees from the requirement to have to secure the coin "when the emission runs out", since by design the emission in Monero does not run out. In Monero the fee market is then used to drive the adaptive blocksize.
There are two critical lessons here:
1) In order to properly address the blocksize issue in Bitcoin, one has to violate a critical social convent in Bitcoin; namely the 21 million XBT limit. If someone has a solution to prove me wrong, I would like to see it. I have been looking for such a solution since 2012 to no avail.
2) The vast majority of POW crypto currencies have made the same mistake. This by the way includes the latest object of anticipation namely ZCash. The other model Ethereum with its fixed fees in the protocol also fails for a different set of reasons.
Both the real world examples of clubs and buses above have another solution. So instead of bribing the bouncer or waiting in line one opens another club to meet the demand. As for a real world example I suggest the Verger by W. Somerset Maugham.
http://www.sinden.org/verger.html. This was set in post war Britain in the late 1940's before the vast majority of the members of this forum were even born, and deals with a product that is now fast becoming obsolete. The message is however as valid today as when it was written. Identify a real need in the marketplace, and start a business to meet that need. Chances are that you will succeed even if the odds appear really stacked against you.
Edit: There is a good chance that the bank in the story was using punched cards and tabulating machines to keep track of the 30,000 GBP on deposit. This is also related but in a different way to the blocksize debate.
