Many users want Bitcoin to succeed . But the damn miners and developers keep drinking the wrong koolaid . Banks make tons of money because they let visa and MasterCard scale for them . All they do is settle the transaction . And each swipe you make at a store the banks get by contract atleast 1 % of the total . Visa the payment provider get . 75 %. And the company the provides the hardware gets . 50 % plus a monthly terminal usage fee . The whole network survives off of 3 %. They don ' t charge a fee per shopping cart . Nor do they give you bigger shopping carts . They just want something in it . Maybe you guys don ' t realize that you are not in the business of securing data and prcessing transactions . You created fucking money . You want 1 MB transactions for a reason . You want payment channels for a reason . You want segwit for a reason . Because scaling has nothing to do with transactions per min . Scaling is getting every man women and child on the planet to use Bitcoin . He who controls the money supply , controls everything . Core knows you big block guys will never agree . It maybe that deep state doesn ' t want Bitcoin to succeed . And if they do it ' s because they have collected enough bitcoins to stay in control . So the best thing to do is segwit , payment channels , and maybe a hard fork . Stop thinking about code . Pandora is open .