1 . Yes 2 . It ' s dishonest if nothing else . 3 . This is the heart of the controversy . Bitcoin has hit a limit to how far it can scale , but it ' s only there because of a technicality the hardware and software can support more users , but for a single line of code preventing it . With consensus , this limit can be lifted quite quickly and easily . The comments being deleted are the ones promoting reaching that consensus instead , the only comments allowed are ones promoting a complex , controversial workaround . A workaround which , I might add , would be good and useful alongside the simple one they don ' t have to be mutually exclusive . 4 . The market cap of bitcoin the number of bitcoin out there multiplied by the price of each bitcoin is $ 12 bn .