Thank you for the long and interesting read, but as long as it's not supported by the official dev team, that's still an altcoin, whatever some say.
95% is correct, but as you say, 8% of the hashrate is a moveable feast. kiklo is currently trolling Bitcoin every chance there is, in favour of some altcoin he's promoting. Not sure if Zeitcoin is any good, not looked at it.
Thanks for the support. Yes, it's not only the pool manager that counts, it's also the miners. And the miners will go wherever there's more money to be milked. (ZCash short history is the latest example on that.)
Still, 95% is a big number, and worrisome...
All that drama, its "just" 60-70k on my node, we hit 80k last month ~10/27. Bitcoin with 1 MB blocksize and no further additions like e.g. SegWit will be unable to handle the demand from time to time. Get ready to pay even higher fees or learn to be patient. (Bitcoin) Black Friday and Christmas are coming, this is just a hint at what will come soon
That may be a good pretext
I tend to agree with deisik here. If the number of unconfirmed transactions would keep growing, then yes, it's the network that cannot support Bitcoin's success.
But the reality tells that there are some strange waves now and then (which I keep thinking that they may be some sort of spam attack), then everything is calm for days and weeks until another tsunami comes.
Friday (18th) with less than 35 sat / byte my transaction got confirmed in some 30 minutes. Monday and yesterday that would not happened...
I will even watch the network for the next window I can send a transaction with 1000 satoshi fee
False. Anyone who believes that zero confirmation transactions are safe is either very misinformed, ignorant or delusional (or other?).
Usually they are badly misinformed. It's not that hard to get to believe that all is good when blockchain.info shows the transaction (even if red and unconfirmed).