Quote from: brg444 on November 04, 2015, 03:59:53 PM

Quote from: VeritasSapere on November 04, 2015, 03:52:33 PM

Quote from: tvbcof on November 04, 2015, 03:34:19 PM

Quote from: VeritasSapere on November 04, 2015, 03:21:37 PM

Yes it has to happen soon, do you remember how I said there could be a spike of adoption due to global events and this is why we should increase the blocksize before this happens. Well it has happened, capital controls in china combined with favorable rulings in the EU have created the perfect storm. The blocks are now becoming consistently full and if we do not increase the blocksize soon, transactions will be rendered unreliable. This would not be a good experience for all of the new people that are now joining our community.

https://blockchain.info/
https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions

If/when there is contention for space on the blockchain, there is a huge amount of room to grow by simply squeezing out the freeloaders. As it happens, they'll not be left homeless or forced to the alt-ville ghettos due to the development of subordinate chains which provide real Bitcoin power through a proxy and does not bloat the core chain and thus compromise the network or require a hard-fork and associated risk.

In other words, life is good! Just look at the price charts for confirmation. It is funny (and not very surprising) to see the likes of Coinbase desperate to reverse the goodness.

Squeezing out the freeloaders? I suppose that would include myself and many other users of Bitcoin, I pay fees but I would not be prepared to pay much larger fees if I can just use an alternative currency instead, Bitcoin does still need to compete. Who are you to say what is a legitimate use of the blockchain and what is not, we should allow as many people as possible to use the blockchain so that its benefits are felt by more people in the world. Third parties build on top of the Bitcoin blockchain do not have the same benefits as transacting on the main bitcoin blockchain directly, so no thank you to using third parties on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, not for me at least.

Bitcoin doesn't compete on the basis of transaction fees.

It competes on all levels, both with fiat and altcoins. Transaction fees are definitely an aspect of that, when the fee goes up, many people will no longer be able to use Bitcoin for smaller transactions, including myself. I would have to move this business over to another blockchain, this certainly is a case of Bitcoin losing business because it can not compete. Not to mention transactions becoming unreliable, this would certainly make other alternatives more attractive.

I am not overly concerned with this scenario however, the writing on the wall seems to indicate that the blocksize will be increased, incentives are aligning.