Quote from: OROBTC on May 11, 2017, 03:43:31 PM

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Stupidity, greed and stubbornness is a terrible combination. Unfortunately that is what the miners & developers are both showing with being unwilling to sit down together and get the scaling problem(s) fixed.

I am continuously amazed that such smart people don't understand that they are putting all of Bitcoin at risk, or certainly scaring off many new people with their silly antics to make a little moar money now at the expense of making much more later. They are all thinking like Goldman-Sachs banksters.

Ugh.

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Would SW and BU be compatible if both were implemented? Serious question, as I have no idea.

The problem isn't that miners and developers are greedy or stubborn. The fact that this became a problem with them is what shows a significant weakness in the system which must now be fixed. A weakness in bitcoin means a weakness for the miners and developers as well. If the fees become too much to bear, they will also lose out in the long run since the fees would mean less people using bitcoin, which means miners and developers get paid less, which leads to less development and solving of issues, and so on.