Ahh yes the Trump way . If there ' s a scandal every day people stop giving a shit <| sep |> So all I have to do is bypass the capacitor and POP ! Terrified look <| sep |> league specific uniquesrares may cost more on standardleague ' sspecific items become cheaperlol nobody knows . <| sep |> U and me both <| sep |> wtf is wrong with people seriously ? <| sep |> We need to contain this premature fee market before it gets out of control . This is the key line , understand for a hardcore of the devs , in particular , Wladimir van der Laan lead maintainer , pressure in the fee market is the main goal , and the block size debate is of secondary importance I do not doubt a block size increase will work . One argument used to defend this approach is that it will eventually have to happen why kick the can down the road . The answer is obvious if the total capacity of the network increases , the cost of individual transactions decreases ! Bigger network . More transactions . More useful . Another objection is that increasing the blocksize , now , changes the economics of the system . Again , the answer is obvious those of us that signed up for bitcoin in 2009 expected capacity to increase , this is the vision we were sold on ! Not doing is the very change in the dynamics that you apparently so vehemently oppose ! To me the current approach is absolutely insane . Why hold capacity down to what it was capable of nearly decade ago , when all of the key metrics that are important for the networks overall capacity have radically improved , globally CPU , HD , Bandwidth , global connectivity , hell even latency . If this is a balance between decentralization and performance we can certainly afford to trade a little of the former for the latter . And of course , these metrics will continue to improve . Conservative increases in the blocksize are not only almost certainly theoretically possible , but as the hardforks of other networks have shown they are not nearly as complicated as one might imagine . Let us hope that the failure of segwit beckons a significant shift in the development community . The essence of segwit itself remains an important idea , but if is to be implemented and activated it really must be complemented by a hardfork that increases the blocksize . Gavin was many things , but he was definitely a leader . There is currently no clear vision at the heart of bitcoin and development is ponderously lacking . The first and key step is for the devs to concede on the notion of the fee market , now , and to just let us actually use our goddamn coins without these ridiculous backlogs . We also desperately need to come to a consensus about what decentralisation is when it comes to bitcoin is it number of nodes , cost of operating a node , geospatial distribution of said nodes a function of all three ? More ? and what level of this decentralization we actually desire .