Quote from: gmaxwell on February 01, 2016, 05:42:41 AM

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The reality Greg is that several years ago you convinced yourself that a strict protocol-enforced block size limit was required to prevent miners from destroying the system and that Bitcoin would only ever be a settlement layer. You then raised money and built a business around off-chain payment solutions to address a "market need" that you thought you had identified.

But now you are beginning to realize that you were wrong. Unfortunately, you've dug your heels in so deep that you just can't quite admit it--maybe not even to yourself.

At least now I can understand why you are so aggressive towards me. It was when people started talking about my work on scalability...how a transaction fee market exists without a block size limit, and later how subchains would permit massive on-chain scaling and improved 0-conf security...that forced you to re-evaluate what you thought you knew to be true. And you lashed out.

You know deep inside that:

The block size limit will soon be raised.

An application of weak blocks, perhaps even the subchain protocol, will be implemented.

Bitcoin will massively scale both on-chain and off-chain.

And this war will come to an end.