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.
In all fairness though, your comment did seem to imply that there's not really a technically issue ("blocks aren't really full, bigblockers are just greedy"). Is this not what you intended to say?
I don't know how you could get "There is not really a technical issue" from what I wrote. I think you just made that up in your head.
For the sake of clarity, I think you and many others like you chose to jump for the low-hanging fruit (bigger blocks) that pretends to be a scaling solution for Bitcoin, just because it is quick and dirty, and stands to potentially net a quick return as (stupid) people are fooled into believing the scaling issue is solved.
There is another solution (for those who believe there is a problem) that is clearly technically superior, and which is a lot more likely to allow Bitcoin to remain decentralized and retain its core value proposition. The only way anyone can ignore that is if they just don't care.
I am sure you will disagree with the points I make above, but the technical discussion of this stuff has been beat to death here, and if you don't agree with me by now, I'm sure you never will. I don't expect that you will stop your constant harangue against Blockstream and Core and all the evil you perceive in them. But I
hope you will at least take a second to consider what your motivations really are.
are all technically superior solutions orders of magnitude more complex then the dumb quick fix?