I'd like to see a detailed investigation into how much of the economy is committing to support it; how much is actually doing verification rather than just blindly trusting miners; the popularity and expected behavior of each end-user wallet software; etc.
sounds terrible, keep your auditing and lobbying and polling for incorporated statists(tm)(r).
nobody ever really knows in the bitcoin.
its all greed and mystery.
PS: the only truly reliable and safest to some extend (not for the forkers obv) way to market pull such "improvement" is commit hardfork and see how the shitcoin goes.
just pick a day, and fork off.
and why a whole blockchain system has to wait when or if Jihan wake up in a good mood, or to be his panda happy or whatever to enable a tech improvement? if bitcoin ecosystem want it it can bypass him. And for sure he has more to loose than anyone else here.