Core Power Rangers have been given an ultimatum
It's not about votes granted by breathing... it's about votes granted by quadrillions of hashes...
It's not about votes granted by breathing... it's about votes granted by quadrillions of hashes...

You honestly expect Honey Badger to respond to ultimatums (ie threats)?
If X gives a shit about ultimatums and threats, X is not Honey Badger.
As for the [impressively large number of] hashes, their function is to act as well-paid security guards, not executives.
If the security guards start demanding a vote in the boardroom they protect, the board will simply fire and replace them with new rent-a-cops.
There is nothing indispensable about sha256, and if the centralized miner tail tries to wag the distributed socioeconomic majority dog we will simply change to another PoW.
Are you really that stupid? You think you can take our chain, render the entire mining industry incompatible and everyone will just dogpile onto your fork with microhash security?
The Board isn't just dealing with collective bargaining from the help, but also from the customers and shareholders. The board is a cunt hair away from getting sent packing by all of us because all they have to do is make one tiny change from a 1 to a 2 and they won't do it.
I will sell my stash. I will tell everyone I meet that Bitcoin is radioactive. I will spin down my node. There are thousands like me.
There is nothing indispensable about Core. We want to work with them. Plead, in fact. We would greatly appreciate their cooperation, but we don't need it. I really want to avoid a fight, but I have already conceded everything I can. Without a commitment to 2MB in a specific timeframe, I walk and so does half the bitcoin economy. You give us no choice.