Now, Circle is taking their $138 million and leaving along with many, many others.
Obvious lie. Who are these "many many others"? How about you cut the FUD nonsense? Circle is a useless company that is on a road to failure.
The congestion has jammed up the network and it is no longer useful.
Any experienced user should have no problems transacting. Don't blame the network for your non existing knowledge.
We should go to 8MB today.
Stating something absurd as this, tells us a lot about you. Precisely, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Interesting fact regarding Hearn: Guess who split up R3.

(remember 2009-2013 the ~4500tx 7tx/s hype... guess what 1mb base segwit only offers ~4500tx(if 100% of users use segwit)) thus not really growth.
No. If you're going to talk about theoretical limits such as the ~4500 TX @ 7 TPS, then Segwit offers ~14 TPS.