We also believe that industry-wide consensus around a technically sound and conservative blocksize increase could be achieved following the activation of Segregated Witness.
what is it that gave you that impression?
I assume they simply 'believe' that SegWit is better because it is safer. They do not claim SegWit is the ultimate solution.
I like the idea of Node Community united against Bitcoin Unlimited, but what end users can do exactly other than voice their concern?
Core nodes were always majority, we have 5613 running Core nodes and only 792 BU nodes. Core 82.22% vs. BU 11.6%
I don't see that huge difference changed state of the war between BU and SegWit.
they appear to assume a blocksize incress with "industry-wide consensus" will fallow segwit.
I like their optimizeme, not sure why they seem so sure about this.
I can't blame them for rejecting BU
as is.... i guess.
The statement reads as tho they would be willing to revisit the idea if some problems are solved:
Proposed hard forks that are driven by a reasonably provable industry-wide consensus using the criteria listed below may be supported as the official version of Bitcoin provided that the following security safeguards are guaranteed:
which i like...
basicly they are saying " segwit Now, aaaannnddd slightly bigger blocks HF later" ?