Small blocks equal small minds.
lol, small blocks equal smart minds. (contrary big and stupid)
Small blocks, small dicks.
Does your mom know you're staying up late and sneaking on to her laptop just to act like a jackass?
Here son, have a clue:
The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. Fight Features. - Andy Tanenbaum 2004 Oh yeah? So adding complicated stuff like sidechains and lightning network is making bitcoin code smaller?
To the extent those build on top of Bitcoin they aren't adding features to it or making the the core code bigger. If they require changes to the core code or adding new features to it, that's a different matter that needs to be considered carefully.
But if the claim is that sidechains are the 'solution' to the 'problem'. Then you are saying they are part of bitcoin [the ecosystem] whether they are part of core or not.
Increasing block size does not add features *and* it 'solves' the 'problem'. Without introducing any other layers of complexity, or attempting to artificially manipulate the fee economy that is growing organically just as it was always intended.
What frightens me is that the whole thing seems to have turned into a pissing contest.
The fee market isn't a problem right now, the block size is. So why are people trying to pre-emptively fix the fee market in an ass backwards way to address the block size problem.
Only 2 nodes here but as soon as we get an XT block size fork I'm in. I sincerely hope that it doesn't come to that though, and the opposing core devs see sense and pull one of the recent BIPS (preferably the 8 meg one, but the 2 would do) straight to core. A complicit hard for will go over much more smoothly I feel.