Re: "Bitcoin is at serious risk of becoming the MySpace of cryptocurrency" - Gavin
Concerns expressed by Gavin are shared amongst many of us for at least a couple years now, I'm of the opinion we've already passed the no return line some time ago, as people cannot build on the bitcoin network and many have been pushed out and had to build their own blockchains or build in some other blockchain, this is reflected on the current low value and the occasional pump without the possibility for growth.
No. Go back to the cave that your crawled out. The rhetoric being spread by Gavin & co is bullshit; the market has decided what the block size should be. Gavin, Hearn, Ver, etc. all lack adequate skills and thus have to resort to social media to try and divert some support their way. Code up a better Bitcoin implementation, and let the market decide. Oh right, you can't.Please take a moment to check the names of the people who contributed directly for the latest release:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1594650.0
I have no idea why he's on that list. Gavin has a singular commit in v0.13.0; a test that he wrote was used by someone else in their pull request.https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1594650.0
Now he argues that wanting to validate every Bitcoin transaction is "irrational." In other words, he suggests we toss the entire full node security model into the trash bin.
There you have it. He's wants to completely change the model that satoshi built. I wonder who influenced him. 
Update: You missed the 'validating transactions' part.