Being a very active gambler i was usually pretty satisfied with btc. The stakes are higher then other sportsbook sites and i like the fact that i don't need any personal information. Well this all changed during recent events with the so called mempool. Just to make this clear, i have no idea how this all works and i don't care either,i just want it to work.
The problem with this is i play on various sites and most of the time i make last minute bets on games in different sports and the transactions have to be almost instant and be confirmed before the bets are being payed out to me again.
Most sites credit the btc after just 1 confirmation which by the looks of it is going to take hours again with almost 45.000 waiting transactions in the mempool. It happened before and it's happening again and it's time for me to say goodbye to bitcoin.
Any other people feeling the same like me who are tired of these slow confirmation like today?
The users want fast confirmations and low fees. Blockstream controlled Core devs don't care what you want. They're going to scale Bitcoin according to their own roadmap, and if you don't like, tough shit.
Any questions?
Faster confirmations, cheaper fees = segwit + schnorr sigs
Schnorr is only supposed to help about 25% from what I've read.
Segwit might be a small increase that would help
for 6-12 months but the fact is that it hasn't
even been accepted.
Sure, you can blame the miners for this but
you have to at least admit the simple
fact that if the core devs really wanted to, they could have
shepherded in an increase by now by simply
agreeing to a larger blocksize.
Meanwhile, adoption is going backwards -- not just
gambling as the OP says, but Dell and Fiverr are
dropping Bitcoin support because its too unrealiable
and meanwhile things are being built
on top of Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.
Instant confirmations, near free = LN
First of all, LN isn't here yet.
Might not be here for 2 years.
And who told you it would be 'near free'?
You still have to pay to settle back to
the main chain.
And what makes you think the first
LN implementations won't be
"Paypal 2.0"s? Because that is
the easiest thing to build and
the most profitable, and therefore
the most likely.
blocksize remains reasonable to be run under average computer = decentralized network
Well that would certainly be nice, but Satoshi always anticipated
that eventually full mining nodes would become large and expensive
as the network grows.
Do you realize that the LN is still going to require very large blocks
to provide worldwide scale? Some are estimating 133MB (google it if you want).
But there is some good news: Olivier Janns seems to
have a great idea that will help decentralization and
both sides of the debate should like:
https://medium.com/@olivierjanss/the-solution-to-the-block-size-debate-42c3814ff481