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The block limit is the technological limit that constrains the on-chain capacity, the arise of fees is the free market reaction.
People representing 90% of global hashrate disagreed during their panel in HK.
The idea that 1MB, "scaling" up to 1.75MB equiv with the gradual rollout of segwit, well into 2017... is the technological limit? That's
BS and you know it.
The important part of their plan is that hard forks
remain "controversial".
Currently the network node operators are overwhelmingly supporting 1MByte block limits, so that is the reality of the technological limit on the network today.
How that changes in the future is the subject of much debate, as you well know.
I was attempting to get causality straight in BJA's mind.
. There's a big chunk of operators still plugging along on previous versions of Core. I also haven't seen an alternative that has the level of ongoing support that I'm comfortable with... so far. I really had high hopes for some kind of good will compromise between the opposing forces (ala garzik), bringing us back together with a common purpose... but it appears that is not going to be the case.