Lol I went to my bank to make a wire transfer and the cashier asked me what was the reason for the transfer. I really hesitated about mentioning anything about bitcoin.
"Personal loan"
Don't anthropomorphize the market -- it hates that.
Passing by just to re quote this.
every day without an inch of movement from Blockstream, increases the possibility. The fact that they start bringing up PoW changes when backed into a corner gives even more weight to the idea that they would rather go to war than compromise to 2MB.
Blockstream is moving rapidly on segwit, sidechains, and Lightning. They are meticulously preparing Bitcoin to be carefully scaled ASAP.
Classic, OTOH, is spreading '2MB? Not much testing needed' nonsense.
And yes, we will "go to war" to defend Bitcoin's diverse/diffuse/defensible/resilient characteristics, from which its key interesting property of antifragility emerges.
Whine about it all you want. Nothing you do can move our Honey Badger's needle one iota. You have no power here.
I still have doubts regarding sidechains security:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vg06a/official_release_rootstock_white_paper/cxnfe6nAs for the segwit thing, I am still quite opposed to the excision of cryptographic signatures from the holy ledger (also implying the introduction of 3rd trusted parties)..
WHat you think?
If he was able to think, he would not be the good old iCE.
Classic is coming, like it or not. The alternative is to go down with a ship full of corecoins or popescucoins.