if blocksize gets an issue it will be solved in 24h
its not a big deal, more a question of details
i'm confident devs will implement a happy middle ground
On what do you base this confidence? Past performance?
from what i see, the scaling conference, the open letter from devs, the on going discussion about it.
it seems pretty clear
something will be done about it, extcal what and when is up in the air.
also what's encouraging is that there is still a lot of room for improvement in a few aspects of the protocol, after a little bit of study 2 months ago i concluded we could grow the network 250 times bigger without demanding more bandwidth than is currently being used, if all these improvements were rolled out. and from there i think 10-100 X increase in bandwidth requirements to run a full node isn't all that crazy, so from where i'm standing bitcoin can potently scale by a factor of 2500 - 25000 while still being very decentralized.
of course i'm probably being a little optimistic on these potential coding gains. but i ain't worried about scalability anymore.
There are legitimate philosophical differences on what type of network Bitcoin should be. There are also political differences and it seems to me that someone behind the scenes is intentionally exacerbating these differences to prevent progress. Of course I have no evidence that is not circumstantial, but even if I am wrong, the failure of the various factions to find ANY common ground is cause for concern at the very least.