Yup, Ethereum is already crawling up. When this continues Ethereum will be 50% of bitcoin in a couple of months.
And this is precisely why a fork MUST happen.
If there is no fork, Bitcoin will be replaced COMPLETELY and will end up with a marketshare of 10% or less.
Ethereum, Dash and Monero then completely take the reigns of the Crypto space.
It's your call boys. What do you want to see happen?
yes, lets:
-double our coins
-end the debate
-upgrade the system
-aaaannndd prevent the altcoin take-over
split it, split ASAP!
A compromise with the Bitcoin Network/Blockchain would be better IMHO.
As far as i can tell, the majority is not comfortable with EC blocksize let alone BU.
On the other side I think UASF without 51% miner support is dangerous, because miners could just fake support for UASF and just orphan all blocks, which would actually include segwit transactions, while still adhering to the rules of the UASF/segwit.
So IMHO UASF does not safely work under given circumstances and EC has not enough economic support to do a safe HF.
An incomplete thought:
Why not add emergent consensus on blocksize through soft forked extension blocks and 1MB+segwit on the main blocks?
Another compromise could be main block 1 MB, extension block Core with segwit and max 2.7 MB blockweight and extensionblock with EC blocksize.
So when you'd run core, you'd have the same spam attack surface as with segwit now.
Of course this would mean more work for devs, which want EC, but the potential reward is higher.
The beauty for BU would be that afterwards you could hard-fork on that extension blocks all you want, without having the risk to split the base BTC currency.
P.S. my personal favorite is SBTC with RSK ;oD