ONE more time for good luck
Sounds great until the whole
July 2017 (maybe, pinky promise)
just in time for one year later than the halving, part.
I suspect another player will soon jump in and steal away all their best devs. Blockstream will go bankrupt by years end.
Not a chance. They just sold their original roadmap as a compromise... and the miners bought it, completely. If anything, they all deserve bonuses, big ones.
... or assuming good faith, they just figured out through an intensive analysis session by a group of the technically most-qualified adversarial minds bashing together, the most likely best-practice, secure and expedient way to increase transaction capacity of the bitcoin system for the foreseeable future.
But spin it how you like, you have with everything else.