There ' s no reason for this crap . Linux has all the tools you need . <| sep |> Lay off on the personal attacks , since it doesn ' t help your argument at all . You presume that if God was real , he would do certain things , which indicates that you have a mental model of God that has a higher level of intervention than that from history . This is the model I am challenging , since it is sort of implicitly assumed to be true by just two groups fundies and atheists . The secondary rebuttal to your point is that God has done quite well worldwide , with the majority today believing in Him . <| sep |> I get there have to be tech improvements , but it also can ' t just always stay the same block size . BOTH are needed . Even a 2 mb plan for after segwit would drastically improve the chances of it being accepted by those who resist it , I imagine . I know there are some crazies out there but many who resist segwit foolish IMO are scared that it will mean never increasing the block size . People will always just say no just wait for the next tech improvement and never actually let it happen . I can kinda see that side of the argument myself . I want segwit , and schnorr signatures , and a ton of other tech improvements , but I also think it is REALLY BAD to just not ever increase the block size . I think the problem we have no is that blocksize increase needed to happen before we got to this situation . If segwit wasn ' t already implemented I would be pro 2 mb now , but instead I am pro 2 mb very shortly after segwit . We will have to see how much scaling is needed after segwit but things are not ok now . My guess is that post segwit it will only be a few months before we will needed someway to scale . Other tech improvements won ' t get there in time . I personally was in favor of the segwit 2 mb all at once but that seems to not be something people consider anymore . The blocks WILL need to increase , someday . Some tech improvements here and there may help but ultimately if we want bitcoin to have massive adoption it isn ' t going to be able to stay at the arbitrary 1 mb forever . Thats even if we have things like lightning . I would love lightning to be ready now , but even if it were I would still be pro 2 mb now . You are right some people in the community want to cast aside the tech improvments and want nothing more than big blocks , and that sucks . Just as bad though is people who think we are going to be able to get away with always finding some way to scale without increasing block size and there is no way that is always going to work . I agree that the criteria is subtle , hard to measure , etc , I think the biggest tech improvement bitcoin could add next is a really smart way of figuring out when and how to measure the need and how to implement block size increases . Whenever they may be needed .