Core didn't promise shit. And to be frank, I see a growing contingent of Core supporters that would refuse to support a hard fork even if released by Core. We're fucking tired of this bullshit. As time goes on, I'm leaning towards rejecting any hard fork and retaining immutable consensus.

Those of us who believe in bitcoin because of cypherpunk ethics and its usefulness to evade state actors -- we will never, ever give in to your pathetic pandering to corporations and centralized miners. We will oppose you, always and forever.

At some point, I believe all parties here will simply need to agree to split chains. We will never achieve consensus for a hard fork on an issue like block size, which goes to the core of issues like decentralization and inclusivity, central to the idea of p2p. It's for the best. Please just fork off, and take Coinbase and Antpool with you. It's clear that we will never agree. Just stop trying to make absurd claims that 75% miner agreement means anything whatsoever (it doesn't) and just fork already.