I want segwit. I think its great, because its a big help to getting LN. I really want LN, because I think that its an essential part of the road to allowing crypto replace fiat. I think blockstream are probably not bad guys. I'm open to the idea that not everything will be done on chain, and that's ok (provided Layer-N solutions share the same key attributes of being open source, peer to peer, do not require the use of their party, allows you to be your own bank etc)
SegWit is needed for LN and it comes with bonuses in addition to an increase of the total amount of transactions that we can have per block.
What I don't want is all the bullshit. 2MB is nothing. Its just a contingency. There is overwhelming support for it, and yet core won't merge it. This is absolutely the antithesis to the idea that bitcoin is decentralised. A few people are controlling bitcoin development and that is a fact. It is centralised right now.
Overwhelming support? No. The problem is that if we deploy 2 MB blocks right now we have to postpone SegWit. A combination of those would be similar to a increase to 4 MB which is definitely unsafe, especially considering that a transaction at 2 MB could be created that would take over 10 minutes to validate. It is either 2 MB block size or SegWit right now. Tell me again what benefits come with a 2 MB block size? None.
Running classic is not the threat to the network that certain people would have you beleive.
Should I put aside the fact that we are handing over the commit keys to 'newbie developers' (except Gavin)? Or the fact that we are moving from a much bigger group of contributors to a much smaller one?
Core could gracefully acknowledge that perhaps on this one thing they might have been wrong, or they could instead make threats about switching POW algorithms to try and maintain their grip on the one true bitcoin. Are they really going to do that over this one issue,
is gmaxwell *that* obstinate, are the the other devs really going to back him?
This is FUD, and a lot of people are trying to use this against Core. Any developer has the right to create a proposal. Don't you remember that Pieter Wuille proposed that we increase the supply to 42million (after the first 21 million have been mined)? This does not mean that the proposal will be implemented. IRC sipa said that they would not merge this.