Satoshis recent comments were right and I agree that bitcoin wasnt designed to be at the whim of central authority which is what it is trying to destroy. So with that im with bitcoin original thick or thin.
Central authority like the bitcoin core devs?
The core devs have historically worked using a consensus based model of decision making. Gavin & Mike are the ones attempting to force through a contentious fork.
Historically, perhaps. But that was history, and that was certainly before Blockstream. Now their interest is to preserve a bottleneck in Bitcoin that makes up the only value proposition for their sidechain alt coins. They have $21m reasons to fight this.
And as people begin to realise this, they are getting behind the fork, something most (including me) wouldn't have countenanced just a few months ago.
Thank you for yet another demonstration of your group's lazy argumentation
The fact that this debate has turned very early on into character assassination and personality contests tells the whole story.
Gavin, Mike & their supporters have made it a political battle that necessarily undermine their arguments and ultimately weaken their position.
About sidechains: they will be of very little use under current block size constraints so you're really grasping at straws here.
You'd think they are goddamned stubborn at Blockstream. Why worry about innovating zero-knowledge proof to scale their sidechain when we can just inflate the block size to infinity!
