Re: Fuck: SegWit, LN, Blockstream, Core, Adam Back, and GMazwell
High fees are a tax and increases opportunity cost, IT DISCOURAGES USE, simple economics.
That isn't simple economics its a circular argument. IF bitcoin's most optimal and valuable use case is to transact then we might be able to see a fee increase would negatively affect its utility as such and that this would discourage use.But bitcoin can serve a different purpose which is a fairly stable value settlement system for meta-players (ie big banks), and this would serve a valuable purpose as well.
Your argument is premised on the former and ignores the possibility of the latter. In regard to the latter bitcoin's other advantage you are ignoring is that it is far more secure in regard to its value proposition than any other coin. Ethereum is far from mature in the security sense and they still have to get to PoS which is uncharted water, it hasn't been scientifically tested/proved.
It's not scientific to not consider a different possibly valid perspective.
Proof of Stake is hardly uncharted waters, their is a large # of Proof of stake coins with different specs, that have been running for years.
(And all of them have a higher transaction capacity than BTC.)
Proof of Work is a failure due to Centralization caused by economic factors, no Proof of Work coin can avoid it.
The fact that China has had over 51% control of BTC for over a year, only proves one thing the speculators will Ignore the Truth as long as it lines their pockets.
