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).
SegWit was promised to arrive in april 2016, it's now September.
This is more or less a repeated and stupid set of points that you are bringing up, yet I sense that if these points are not addressed, some folks are going to come to the wrong and misleading conclusions that you are arriving at.
What is this supposed April 2016 promise that is often repeatedly brought up, who made it, and what was said exactly?
Anyone with any kind of knowledge of process of a decentralized system and a technical system such as bitcoin that is securing billions of dollars of value at the present and potentially inspiring even more value in the future have to realize that the process should not cave in to quick implementations without proper vetting and testing and whatever is needed to ensure that it is done properly and without unnecessary controversy when it finally is released. The release of this kind of thing should be rushed.
The tone of your comment also seems to devolve into a meaningless suggestion that there is some kind of urgency in releasing seg wit, which there is not. Bitcoin is not broken, there is no fire, fees are not too high transactions are not taking too long... sure releases of innovation will likely cause improvements, but there is no rush, and it seems much more important to accomplish improvements with prudence than to make stupid ass rushed mistakes (such as the ETH hard fork should illustrate kind of things that can go wrong with rushing and without proper vetting)
By the time it actually arrives (if ever) it will be too little too late.
Too late for what? Again you are implying some kind of urgent need.
Meanwhile we're losing market share as bitcoin, while 1 change to a simple line of code could have fixed this easily.
To whom is bitcoin losing market share? and even if it were true that some marketshare were lost, who cares? In the end, we go to the better coin, and if bitcoin does its implementation correctly, it will remain the better coin, if bitcoin implements some bullshit rushed job with flaws, then investors in bitcoin will likely be much worse off.
And yet, you put your trust in this incompetent core dev team.
I don't see what is incompetent about vetting and testing...
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?
April
2016 2017 2116 20116
look at you, exaggerating.. 2017 or 2018 might be o.k., but I suspect seg wit will be live before april 2017, but of course if there are reasons not to release it, bitcoin will be fine, even without such a release.
You suggest that increasing the blockchain size to 2mb would be an obvious solution, which is not true, also brings problems, and is likely not even necessary because bitcoin is not broken. transactions are continuing to go through securely and in a fairly timely manner with relatively low fees - decentralized and immutable.