Quote from: ATguy on January 10, 2016, 10:51:37 AM

Nope, no consensus at all, just majority of Bitcoin core developers which represents only small part in Bitcoin ecosystem. At least Bitcoin core developers are honest and telling clearly they cannot dictate the future of Bitcoin thus encouraging others for developing other full node clients working with (and defining) Bitcoin protocol, so no sabotaging at all, just finding full node client which gets widest popularity among Bitcoiners. There is not realistic other option than Bitcoin core today, but given the unpopular features like RBF, SegWit as scaling option, and full blocks in 2016/2017, Im pretty sure the competetion finally starts soon and we will be not in situation where one group of developers controls the future of the whole Bitcoin ecosystem anymore, especially when they are unwilling to hear substantional (if not majority) view.

Good luck with your fairy tale. People call out on SegWit for its "complexity" but they have no problems with several implementations and different groups of developers (it certainly makes it "easier" for a person new to Bitcoin). Anyone who understands features like SegWit endorses them, the others (most, not all) are ignorant and quickly jump to conclusions. You sound a bit like Peter R to me.

Quote from: sAt0sHiFanClub on January 10, 2016, 11:07:00 AM

It just shows how disconnected with reality the OP'er has become. This is a side effect of living under a censoring regime. When you only get to see one side of an argument, you start to believe that it is the only narrative.

Happens pretty much everywhere these days.

Quote from: Fatman3001 on January 10, 2016, 08:34:57 AM

That's a pretty weird way of looking at it.

There are people who disagrees with the "consensus", which would lead one to believe that there isn't a consensus.

There will never be 100% consensus, especially not when bad actors are around. Get used to coming close to 100% (that's enough in the current system).

Quote from: franky1 on January 10, 2016, 11:23:09 AM

a few have been lobbying for and fanboying blockstream for months. but when actually asking them to explain in detail why people are wrong

I feel like there is correlation with you not being able to understand SegWit properly. I recommend listening to the latest Bitcoin podcast, Andreas is talking about it.