Scaling to high transaction rate has always been my main concern about viability of bitcoin. I'm much more concerned about scalability than government shutdown, for example.
The 'fancy Visa' heresy is older than I thought!
Talk about failing to
grok the ethos (early and often).
So Garzik is a limousine libertarian. No wonder he's so eager to help Olivier Janssens engage in pointless/dangerous vanity forks based on retail payment rail business requirements.