Re: Do miners really think destroying Bitcoin will make them rich?
^ shocker, carlton disagrees with my opinion. 
We are not losing market share to Alt coins because of a possible hardfork, that is just the smoke screen for clever people to push stupid people to sell their Bitcoins and then to buy Alt coins the clever people have invested in prior to the hype. No matter what Alt coin you invest in now, miners will have a huge influence in the "politics" involved.
I'm not saying this. I'm saying we are losing market share because there's not enough bandwidth and the fees are too high. When we had network congestion (spam attack or not) it really freaked a lot of people out who were actually using Bitcoin to transfer money. I was one of those people -- one of my employees was pretty upset he had to wait 2 days while his transaction got stuck in the mempool. People started using dash and ethereum. I'm close to 100% sure that none of this is good for Bitcoin. And if those problems come up again (its only a matter of time unless we have some scaling solution), I'm certaintly not going to be using Bitcoin to pay people if it becomes more expensive than Paypal. Why should I?
ASIC manufactures can influence what is going on with altcoins? I don't know much about that. Sounds a little far fetched/doesnt make sense.
We are not losing market share to Alt coins because of a possible hardfork, that is just the smoke screen for clever people to push stupid people to sell their Bitcoins and then to buy Alt coins the clever people have invested in prior to the hype. No matter what Alt coin you invest in now, miners will have a huge influence in the "politics" involved.
I'm not saying this. I'm saying we are losing market share because there's not enough bandwidth and the fees are too high. When we had network congestion (spam attack or not) it really freaked a lot of people out who were actually using Bitcoin to transfer money. I was one of those people -- one of my employees was pretty upset he had to wait 2 days while his transaction got stuck in the mempool. People started using dash and ethereum. I'm close to 100% sure that none of this is good for Bitcoin. And if those problems come up again (its only a matter of time unless we have some scaling solution), I'm certaintly not going to be using Bitcoin to pay people if it becomes more expensive than Paypal. Why should I?
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Asic manufacturers also have a huge hold over miners and what side they have to be on in this debate. Some miners wanted to give SegWit a chance on other Alt coins, to see what would happen and they were "influenced" by some of the bigger Asic manufacturers not to allow that. < Why? >
ASIC manufactures can influence what is going on with altcoins? I don't know much about that. Sounds a little far fetched/doesnt make sense.