I've partially accepted the fact that "big blockers" have lost this round and have been trying to figure out if there's any future for Bitcoin after the miners decided to go with Core. I was very encouraged by two things today:
1. Core will commit to a HF of at least 2MB and have the code ready for July. Even if the trigger is Feb 1 2017 it would mean that a lot of the uncertainty surrounding Bitcoins viability would be gone. 2MB with Segwit would allow Bitcoin to grow on the main chain. Not much, but maybe enough for it not to experience an economic collapse.
2. Miners were explicitly threatening to ditch Core if they didn't give them a bump in the block size limit within a given time frame. That is powerful. What little I've understood from this debate is that parts of core are manipulators and lying bastards and can't be trusted, so it would be nice if someone held a gun against their heads.
However, If the miners accept the wording quoted above then this agreement is a total loss. We've seen the phrase "maximum effective block size" before. It takes into account the theoretical increase from segwit and all the other witchcraft they've been talking about lately. Bitusher even started including LN blocks into the calculations in an earlier discussion in this thread. We might end up with less than 1MB maxBlockSize on the main chain by the looks of it.
You should accept the fact "big blockers" never had a chance. Not this round, not the previous round, not the next round.
You aren't holding any cards, and Honey Badger has aces up his sleeve.
If that makes you cry, go write your whiny Bitcoin Obituary and ragequit like Hearn.
1. Core has no authority to commit Honey Badger to anything. You only pretend their happy talk about July '17 is a victory to protect your ego and avoid cognitive dissonance. In your heart, you know it's a hollow hope.
2. Honey Badger doesn't take well to explicit threats. How could you not understand that by now? Honey Badger will sooner tear your head off and take a nap in your chest cavity than capitulate to or compromise under duress. If he did anything different, he wouldn't be Honey Badger.
You persist in the wishful thinking wherein if you complain and FUD loudly enough Honey Badger will magically transform into a Compromise Weasel. But that won't happen, unless he is not antifragile after all and we should all just go home because the experiment is over.
Bitcoin's proof of work is replaceable; it's Holy Blockchain is not. Hyper-specialized, over-centralized sha256 ASIC miners need Bitcoin infinitely more than Bitcoin needs sha256 ASICs (which are becoming a liability as their centralization leads to some miners thinking they are the bosses of Bitcoin's Planning Committee).