One thing that seems apparent to me is the lack of willingness to compromise. Appeasement is a powerful marketing tool. Could we reasonably raise the block size limit to 1.1MB without wrecking Bitcoin? Wouldn't the good will generated be worth it? Along the way we might learn something important. I fully realize the 2MB being bandied about is already a giant compromise down from the 32MB or 8MB sizes being proposed before. Is there something special about doubling? It can be set to 1.1MB easily, right?
1.1mb is an empty gesture. and solves nothing long term. meaning its just a poke in the gut knowing that more growth would be needed soon.
the 2mb is not forcing miners to make 2mb blocks. its a BUFFER to allow for growth without having to demand that core keep chaing the rules every month.
meaning even with 2mb buffer. miners can set a preferential limit of 1.1mb and still have 45% of growth potential(the 2mb hard limit) not even tapped into and not needing to beg core to alter for months-years
imagine it. 2mb buffer and miners grow slowly month after month growing by 0.1mb when they are happy to. without hindrance or demands
just like in 2013 when miners were fully able to use the 1mb buffer the miners did not jump to 0.95mb, they grew slowly over months and months. without having to ask core to change..
Thank you franky1: I understand but a 10% jump is at least something and then if all goes well the stage would be set to jump to something more, e.g. 1.2MB. Breaking the standoff seems more important to me at this time; the world is watching us.