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It seems is and the main reason why they block segwit activation obviously because lighting network cant work properly without segwit.
Always bitcoin ecosystem has different parts with different economical profit models.
Miners profits from fees, high bitcoin price and from many bitcoin transaction in blocks.
Exchanges profit from trade orders and price volatility.
Bitcoin startups like Blockstream profit when their technical solution can farther develop.
The problem now is how all of them come together and agree to a win-win solution?
Lets face it noone likes fees like 1$, but current price of BTC like 1000$ cause fee 0.0002 so 0.2$ and now we have slow inefficient bitcoin.
Bitcoin starts loosing ground for other alts. And you see that on coinmarket cap BTC have trading volume like 55% now with 70% market cap dominance
Look at that in 3 years from now and alts will have 90% volume and BTC will have 10% becouse it cannot scale.
I feel that alts like ETH/Dash/Doge are good "LN" (lighting network and example ) those alts show that for end customer doesn't count "BTC" brand
but also costs and speed. You will never buy coffee without 2nd layer solution like LN.
Miners will see in market cap that BTC will lose value against alts.
Miner and fees are part of ecosystem but price rise becouse of USERS not becouse of miner...
If price of BTC would rise because more miners come and more hash-rate network have BTC would be never dumped... Do you think that miners are more important than users
?
Do miners want see customers middle finger i think there is very close to that.
Sorry guys customers showed that finger already by falling BTC dominance.
Today customers have good alternatives ETH/DASH have quite good volume and are cheap.
Do BTC miners have any benefits form those alts rise
? They are helping those alternatives.
To be over pumped.
If we think about BTC of store of value people will always see BTC for savings like they pay premium for gold and silver.
Higher fees won't deter savers.
Ah one more thing most trades and transfers are now of-chain on exchanges miners have nothing from those trades and they have to live with it because it helps BTC network.
Lighting network will kick out of road most alt current pump and back $ capital to BTC.
Is better to have fees from 1000 billion market than 15 billions.
But miners will learn lesson with falling BTC price i bet on that.