In the ongoing scaling debate, I wonder why is the discussion focused solely on the block size.
To my understanding, decreasing the difficulty, either statically or dynamically, has the same effect, of increasing the transaction-confirmation rate.
I don't know if such a thing can be done with a soft work, but for those advocating a hard fork, why not a fork that decreases difficulty?
Can anyone enlighten me?
Why not simply use the chain that is exactly like bitcoin, but does that, and is called LTC ? Litecoin runs 4 times faster than BTC, has (hence) 4 times more room on the chain, is (hence) 4 times quicker in confirmation ; and hey, it even got Segwit even though that doesn't serve any purpose for the moment on an essentially empty chain.
It sounds like people are complaining that each time they buy, say, a Ford-T it doesn't have this and it doesn't have that. I'd say, go to the dealer next door, who sells Toyota. Maybe it is a product that has the things you want ?