but you refuse to offer it.
lol.
that may be the miners' main concern. they are also working off mere perception. they can be wrong -- very wrong -- about what users want. they are also motivated by short term profit, and game theory says they may be willing to sacrifice long term interest (happy users) if short term gains (i.e. from double spending) are large enough. the relative anonymity of miners and the potentially fly-by-night nature of pools adds to this.
again, miners interests =/= user interests. miners have a distinct incentive -- particularly if fees are too low -- to double spend. users have no interest in this whatsoever.
IMO you're totally over exaggerating the disconnect between user interests and miner interests.
Miners have a long term stake in the game, they have an investment in hardware that takes them about a year to to start getting a ROI
most of them are constantly reinvesting in new hardware which solidifies their long term stake.
if anything users might be the ones that are short sighted, they can buy-in and sell-out at a moment's notice.
users could buy now, push of segwit + LN and then sell the moment its released, they might not care how segwit +LN changes the game, they only care about the short term profit a smooth deployment of a scaling solution might potentially have.
you simply keep ignoring contexts in which clearly miners interests diverge from users.
here, a RL example:
there was a time when a mining pool got ~50% hashing power, they IMMEDIATELY took steps to separate the hashing power, because they knew it made users concerned.
they could have gotten >51% hashing power and started to double spend like mad fools for short term profit, they didnt!
how can we ensure this survey is honest and representative? i can produce such a survey and i assure you, it won't be.
you try your best to make sure your sample is representative of the community at large
example for ever female bitcoiner you survey, you survey 100 males.
its imperfect but... meh.
you have to look at the hashing power voting as an educated guess / personal preference.
yeah, that's all it is.
a guess. sorry but not interested in allowing consensus changes based on today's "guess" by miners.
the idea is that if we put all the best guess / preferences together we get a very good guess.
the wisdom of the crowd type thing
