If you look at the way things are going now, you might realize that miners have lost the plot. They are sabotaging the whole Bitcoin experiment, because they want to make more profit and if they cannot do this, they will attack the minority chain to achieve their goal.
Satoshi had hoped that this will never happen, but it is happening now. Miners are willing to kill the cow to feed them now, even if the cow is providing milk on a daily basis.
What is Bitcoin without people using it?
What is Bitcoin without trust? < If people stop trusting that miners will act in good faith to keep the cow alive >
What is Bitcoin without security? < 51% attacks provide no security >
What is Bitcoin with no value?
Some of these miners should realize that the "milking" of Bitcoin users will stop, once they have killed the cow. We should act in the best interest of this technology and reduce the hold they have over us.
~ Pay less fees < Just be patient > They are getting $350 000 daily in higher tx fees according to Trace Mayer.
~ Fire up the old miners and host nodes to have a say
~ Ask developers to change the code to keep them honest or to remove the hold they have over the Bitcoin users.
Let's change our mindset and show these miners who makes up Bitcoin. ^grrrrrrr^
Miners (and by miners, I mean the usual chinese mafia) are bribed by institutions and states that have more money than the entire bitcoin marketcap combined. This is what explains the odd behavior with miners, because im under the assumption that they are intelligent enough to know going against 80% of the nodes and supporting inferior software + killing the network effect and price in the process, is not by any means a good idea.
Think about it, how else would TPTB attack bitcoin, if it wasn't by bribing miners?
What we are seeing is an obvious incentivized attack, so they don't care about the outcome of bitcoin.
It is yet to be seen if the community reacts and rejects it and the bitcoin network effect survives, and I hope and trust it does.
The only thing that is happening, is that miners are essentially quite happy with the current form of bitcoin, it brings them guaranteed fees in the future, and don't want this to be MODIFIED seriously. Core has decided to force a modification upon them which would take the essence of the fees to another layer. THIS is what miners don't want. So they will side with anybody who helps them stop these modifications. They want immutability, because it suits them. Immutability was what bitcoin was designed for. Bitcoin is what it is, and will not change if that change is against the interests of a part of the community. That was the whole idea. Only (technical) changes that don't matter for people's situation can eventually be implemented.
Bitcoin was designed with payment channels (lightning network) in mind, so satoshi saw LN coming. LN is supported by the likes of Nick Szabo (aka satoshi nakamoto). LN would in the long term deliver more gains to miners. Miners supporting shitty software and killing the network effect via HF aren't using their brains or are getting bribed.