Bitcoin is a sinking ship now. The amount of politics going on simple decisions clearly shows no further advancement can be expected from it.
It has turned into a government where the members keep on spitting out shit but not doing anything. UK government is going to regulate it soon.
They can monitor how and where i spend my money. Worse, they know how much i have. Even worse, every joe with my address knows how much i have. I was better of using cash. Finding some new things to invest money in.
Thanks to Bitcoin for starting the crypto ecosystem. Bitcoin had its time. Off to something better now (maybe fiat or an altcoin which provides me with privacy)
Dark wallet is in beta right?
Once that stuff - coin mixing/joining - becomes commonplace your anonymity will be top notch. Governments won't be able to monitor anything when half the network is nothing, but equal denominations of Bitcoins being sent to 7 different addresses.
Heck I'm using torrents without worrying about IP address and no one has knocked on my door yet.
All regulation is centered on exchanges because they know its the only target they can reach with low regulation cost.
But once you're in Bitcoin you're out of their grasp and there is a new way to get Bitcoin by every day!
They will loose.
As for not changing the 20mb chain proposal has wide support and will likely roll out when the time is right in the future. What else needs changing? Coin join gives us perfect anonymity and now we will have scalability too.