Quote from: cryptoanarchist on April 22, 2017, 05:09:06 AM

I guess we'll find out, but I think that when one chain takes forever to get a tx through, that will pretty much kill it. Especially when they can just switch clients and get back to normal.

See I don't think we will find out. Because with so much uncertainty regarding what amounts to a hostile takeover, the ones mining the takeover attempt are putting their investments at massive risk when sticking with core is a safe way to maintain a stable economy, with or without segwit. The problem lies in not knowing what Roger Ver's actual motives are and why he's spending so much money trying to create a hostile takeover - the industry and the community has voted and is mostly against it. He's even running a mining pool at a loss to try and get community miners to add hashrate to BU (pool.bitcoin.com). I can speculate there but I prefer not to because I don't wish to fall into the trap of believing yet another conspiracy theory. The number of conspiracy theories out there at the moment is quite absurd. As a coder I can argue the technical side and I try to look at things objectively but as I've decided what I think is best, someone will instantly call me a shill or troll so I tend not to argue very strongly, especially against the 4 vocal trolls. People like yourself on the other hand have been trying to hold a civil meaningful discussion. I don't have the intestinal fortitude to fight with trolls so I just put them on ignore. I'm quite sure I don't even need to tell you who I'm ignoring; think about it yourself and what names come to mind... and why?

EDIT: I just saw your bitcoin core 0.14 post and changed my mind about you being civil. It's a software announce thread, not a debate thread.