Laugh from crying too muchOrCry from laughing too much <| sep |> Well , because the criteria is pretty nuanced , the rollout is slow , and the safe amount to raise the block is not very much . 4 MB is the most that I can fathom it would be increased to , and ultimately that ' s very little . Then we ' ve done a hardfork to buy another 618 months of scaling and we ' re right back to where we started . Except , it ' ll take 618 months go deploy a hardfork , so we won ' t ever even see the gains . Basically , with segwit we ' ve already got as much scaling as could gain consensus . And even then it is contentious for not being enough . Raising the block size is not something that can keep happening . There needs to be tech improvements to make it safe , tech improvements like the fixes introduced by segwit , but the community seems eager to cast those aside .