Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on March 27, 2016, 06:02:20 PM

Lightning network is just the first example of can be done building on P2SH with payment channels.

The lightning network is a great achievement. It is quite unfortunate that people are bashing it. LN has a theoretically infinite capacity. It is absurdly more efficient than transacting on the main-chain in addition to being both decentralized (it should be) and secure as well. It is currently the only known way for Bitcoin to scale towards mainstream adoption.

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on March 27, 2016, 06:02:20 PM

The problem right now is the paucity of imagination and talent, made worse by distractions like appeals to get-rich-quick solutions, short-termism, etc.

Indeed. These controversial forks are just disruptions. I'm certain that a lot of time has been wasted (time which could have been used for developing).

Sometimes I get this feeling that these discussions are going in loops. It can get quite tiring at times.