]You reveal your scientific and engineering background. "You can only try to disagree with something that is a fact" this is not true. I have a background in philosophy, unlike science it is not based on facts alone but self evident rationality as well. Ethics for instance is not based on any "facts". And I certainly can disagree with other peoples ethics.
Let's not discuss what science is and whatever you've just started talking about else that is a straw-man.
You are arguing a huge straw man here.
No. Let's start by analyzing your post.
Just because we can not scale Bitcoin to twenty four blocks now does not mean we should not scale Bitcoin at all. You have falling into the nirvana fallacy.
No. Scaling Bitcoin via the block size is not the only way, thus wrong. Segwit scales Bitcoin and so do second layer solutions.
An increase to two megabyte is huge, it doubles throughput.
Segwit will amount to a ~2MB increase (possibly more), thus 2 MB blocks aren't huge.
In the real world that is significant and it does not matter that we can not scale to 24 gigabyte blocks now. Over time maybe we can who knows, but if you are correct and LN and SD will be very popular then that will take a load of the network as well, as over time the technology increases, hopefully it will remain in step with technological progress. If that is not the case however we still can and should limit blocksize according to actual supply and demand and real technological limits. Instead of arbitrarily and unnecessarily limiting Bitcoin at one megabyte.
Nobody ever said that the plan is to keep Bitcoin at 1 MB. Additionally what you're telling me is: "We can't have that today, but it is okay because we don't need it and technology
mighty enable it in the future.".
I'm telling you this
is possible with LN today (i.e.
once released) and you're completely ignoring this (this being a very important point).
We don't have to worry about how long a 24 GB block will take to verify on current CPU's because today's CPUs will never see such a block.
I wanted to know out of curiosity; that was not an argument. Read my post above.