'principles' have cost us 10% market share in 3 months!
Prove it. What have alt pumps got to do with bitcoin? The only thing that matters is making bitcoin as viable and robust as possible. It doesn't matter what alts are doing. Go buy alts if getting rich quick is your intention here. But you may find that doing that right now will be a bad decision in hindsight.

its a doge eat doge world out there buddy

Yes let the forks and alts cannibalize one another as they all try in disagreement to fix bitcoin's problems.

yes of course, they dont posse a threat, there silly competition with no merit
they'll never crack the >1MB "problem"
Nobody said alts have no merit (although most of them don't on their face)......what I said was do what is best for bitcoin regardless of them. Competition from alts is not a legitimate reason to force hasty/untested software changes that much of community does not support
And whether they crack the problem of scalability is years off. Easy to claim scalability when a network is barely used by anybody (whether ethereum or whatever else)......some eth devs have said that they are already realizing that eth is not more scalable than btc