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February 08, 2016, 09:40:17 PM

Classic is just Core with at 2mb block size limit and a governance coup that will alienate our best devs.

FTFY.

And don't forget 2mb blocks + segwit hurts decentralization (because of bandwidth/storage constraints).

Your post failed to mention segwit.  Why is that?

Are you unaware segwit exists, is being tested, and approximates the tps increase of 100% block size increase?

Or are you lying by omission?

Wow, I guess I said a lot.

I like segregated witness and hope it gets implemented. It is a safer bet since it's a soft fork. I like the lightning network as presented and hope it works out as well. I think that all of these updates will have more time to be properly implemented if the 2mb block limit is implemented so there is no rush which could cause mistakes to be made.

But you are correct in that I am unaware of many things when it comes to the development. I do have some trust in developers making a sound decision hopefully based upon math and logic instead of listening to the peanut gallery turning it into a political process. I upgraded for the last fork and was pleased that the developers came up with a solution. I have confidence that it will work out again.

I actually do enjoy political discourse but do not care to get down to that level of the Bitcoin protocol. When IPv4 was being developed I'm sure there were a lot of developer and technical discussions about various bits to reserve for which features, security concerns, worries about running out of addresses, etc. But even though I know all about IPv4 down to the bit level I would rather use the Internet than sit around and discuss the tiny nuances of it. I have confidence that the geeks who deal with it on a daily basis can make better decisions on it than I can.

I leave the block size debate back to those that are really passionate about it and I'll go back to using bitcoins.