Core continues to strangle BTC's transaction capacity for some (idiotic) reason. Money still flowing into alts.
A large price drop is practically guaranteed.
You have been on this blocksize limit kick for quite a while, and seeming to continue to ignore actual facts regarding ongoing and continuing developments, including the pending implementation of seg wit (including the timeline involved for its vetting and testing prior to implementation).
Is it April yet?
As you likely realize - a meaningless talking point to suggest that there was some kind of guaranteed solution.. ridiculous.
There is no urgency, so there is no need to suggest that April was some kind of necessary. There are a lot of ongoing developments with seg wit and related, and you are missing these matters when you continue to suggest that there is some kind of defect or suggesting that bitcoin is "behind schedule" in some kind of way.
There is urgency.
Bitcoin is losing market share to altcoins (both in market cap as well as transaction volume and trading volume).
Blocks are more often full than not, indicating there is demand for bigger blocks.
To say the matter is not urgent is a lie.
There's a reason the debate started in 2013 and the debate became more fierce in 2015.
It was because people actually recognized the problem before it became a problem, but for some reason (he who shall not be named) now that it has actually become a problem because no action was taken it's barely even discussed anymore.
Larger block size means lower security and therefore lower price. So no, if you want the price to go down you should increase block size.
Larger blocksize don't mean lower security, those two have nothing to do with each other.
so crossing under 600 / could this next fall trigger the next rise,. ? / the pump must come,.
the pump wont come as long as the blocksize debate isn't resolved.
Events make more of an impact on the price than all the block size stuff. Last November when China "unbanned" Bitcoin again the price shot up, and nobody gave a crap about the block size.
Of course no one gave a crap about the blocksize back than, because the average block size was not anywhere near the blocksize limit back then.
Now it is though, and it's not supposed to be.