owait, that happened in 2013... nvrmnd.
Many of us still mine at home , and even profitably because we have free electricity from Sunk costs (microhydro,solar)
There is also hope/expectations that products will start to be released in the future to recycle heat from ASICs, that will than incentivize more mining at home.
Which is unrelated to your concern as your stratum connection to the pool requires minimal bandwidth... or you are solo mining at home?
Here's kano's opinion...
Announcement: We will withdraw support from February 21s roundtable consensus, unless Adam Back gives us a reasonable explanation why he quietly changed his title from Blockstream President to Individual at the very last moment without anybody noticed. We feel weve been cheated. I dont know how we can trust Blockstream anymore in the future.
Hmm, couldn't all the pools just go with 2MB and tell the devs who think they control everything to stop trying to make themselves feel important?
Bitcoin is by design controlled by the consensus of the miners, not by centralised control.
It would seem that there are all sorts of parties trying to control bitcoin and I guess they all simply fail to understand the design.
Doesn't really matter how important devs think they are, if they want to be a relevant part of the blockchain decisions then they need to be miners.
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BlockStream/Sidechains/SegWit all sounds a lot like trying pointlessly to control altcoins and make something like a partial SPV ... to me.