we're going to need some big event to justify the rise, blocksize limit / scalability being solved would probably be enough.
You really think we can scale tho? I'm starting to see Bitcoin as a kind of flawed masterpiece. Is it fixable?
I think this is all mostly posturing from two political camps. Neither trying to concede anything in an effort to determine the trajectory of a compromise. Hard to get "consensus" on a fix for something that's not broken, yet.