This is exactly what is happening to Bitcoin due to Core's roadmap.
They may be expert programers, but they don't understand that Bitcoin is only valuable if it is useful, and their roadmap is destroying its usefulness.
Full blocks and the high fees and backlog that they create are destroying Bitcoin's comparative advantage and driving people to use alt coins instead.
Absolute bullshit, based on NO economic theory whatsoever.
Roger is perpetuating a myth, that only those that do not understand economic theory will believe in. It is absolutely not true that raising bitcoin's transaction capacity will raise its value. Doing so will destroy bitcoin's quality as a digital gold. Ver wants control of bitcoin and he wants to break it because he is a power hungry child that has absolutely no understanding of economics.
Satoshi built this system, much like the foundation for the US government system, such that a faction like Ver's brigade CANNOT override the consensus mechanism and usurp the system's security.
There is absolutely no scientifically founded argument for the drivel Ver is spouting which is exactly why he never says anything but things like "Bitcoin is like Starbux therefore...".
Thinking bitcoin needs more and more uses cases and that we must guard bitcoin's utility as a coffee money is to completely not understand bitcoin's macro-economic relationship to our global economy. Raising bitcoin's transaction capacity solves no significant problem whatsoever.
People like Roger that subscribe to this myth do not understand what money is for. Money as a medium of exchange is not a significant solution to anything. The significant purpose for money to exist is to provide a pricing mechanism for the markets so that they may operate efficiently.
It is the VALUE proposition that must be guarded in regard to bitcoin and changing the implied tps absolutely alters and effectively destroys the stability of this proposition.
Ver will never enter dialogue with me on this because I will absolutely school him on the subject with truth founded in accepted and basic (macro)-economic argument.
Keep yelling, keep having tantrums, keep banning people from your community who will explain what is wrong with your understanding. You have only one hope Roger, to destroy your wealth, it's logically impossible to do what you are trying to do. Satoshi is laughing at you, Szabo is laughing at, and anyone who understands economics is appalled by your argument.
You are a communist block-chain Keynesian in (not very good) disguise, you do NOT understand economics and you have no idea what money is for or how it works.
https://medium.com/@rextar4444/the-absurdity-of-communism-and-hard-forking-bitcoin-to-coup-core-4486aa9191c8#.ouf5gdbgzGreat post. Fuck Roger Ver.