Quote from: Carlton Banks on March 24, 2017, 09:42:22 PM

Explain how the miners aren't abusing their position when they threaten to fork the network away from the people who are doing the real work on this project: the development team

ok, to clarify at this point I no longer care so BU or BTC or WTF, all are the same at this point,just different people trying to abuse bitcoin to fulfill their own interest. As per the bitcoin protocol, the miners are allowed to take the decision, and choose what chain they want to mine, if they prefer the BU chain and it becomes the longest chain then that is the bitcoin chain. This is the basic mining system, and from their point of view they are respecting the protocol. Now if you look at the core development team, they are ones who are abusing their position by pushing segwit/lightening network when clearly it has no majority support and it is a conflict of interest due to them being part of Blockstream.