I hate the fact that my investment in Bitcoin appears to be getting fucked.
I think you have here revealed the 'core' of your outrage... My impression is that most (all?) of the members of the 'bigger blocks now, at any cost' crowd are people who ultimately view Bitcoin as their get-rich-quick scheme, and have no real concern at all for the long-term technological success of Bitcoin.
That's fine by me - I have nothing against people striving to promote their own enlightened self-interest - but you should at least be honest about it and quit pretending that your concerns are technical ones.
You sure talk a lot of shit for someone who knows next to nothing about the actual problem, if you do, you wouldn't use 'my impression', you would use actual numbers and basic math.
I haven't talked ANY shit at all, just expressed an opinion. If you don't like my opinion, well, fuck you. You don't have to like it.
I expressed my impression of people's motivations. How, pray tell, can I mathematically represent those motivations?
I have no intention of re-arguing the technical arguments that have been already argued to death on this forum and elsewhere. I will just say that if you think you are actually smarter than people whose work formed the foundation of Bitcoin, like Nick Szabo and Adam Back then you are just an idiot.
I invested in bitcoin before these so called "founders of bitcoin".
And no matter if they're smarter then me or not, that doesn't mean I should trust them.
Smart people can be evil too, and Adam Back is demonstrably evil. I don't care if he's smart or not.
In fact, Smart Evil persons are even worse because they're more creative in their scams.
A lot of successful con artists are very smart, and they usually benefit from dumb people. By blindly following people just because you're smart you're setting yourself up for scams.