Quote from: deisik on May 13, 2017, 06:42:32 PM

Quote from: BitcoinPanther on May 13, 2017, 05:13:08 PM

Quote from: OROBTC on May 13, 2017, 01:41:18 AM

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Maybe the SW/BU Bitcoin Civil War is starting to have a negative effect.

1. 182,000 unconfirmed transactions (highest I have ever seen in my casual monitoring at: https://blockchain.info/new-transactions)

2. BTC down over $100 in one day.

I sure wish the Miner Wankers and the Developer Wankers would get together and SOLVE the scaling problem(s). Else they may damage the Bitcoin Ecosystem and discourage newbies from joining the community.

BTC to $5000 if/when they resolve all of this (credit to jonald_fyookball for that prediction, and I would agree with that number).

Aside from these unconfirmed transactions, the once 130 sat/byte transaction that can give us an instant confirmation now needs to wait couples of hours before it gets its first confirmation. It seems bitcoin, instead of evolving is devolving. But even if bitcoin shows this sign, I never lose faith in Bitcoin and its core developer. I still believe this scaling issue will be solved as time pass by

Sometimes you may have to make a step back to make a step ahead

Personally, I'd rather say that Bitcoin is neither evolving nor devolving, it is in fact stagnating. But since other currencies are moving ahead (at least, there is such an impression), it kinda looks like Bitcoin is devolving. Now to my point. Developers can actually do little toward acceptance of whatever they might be developing or improving. It is miners that have the final say. So if Bitcoin continues to stagnate, primarily due to miners' obstinacy and obsession with short-term profits, then Bitcoin may lose its appeal and, consequently, value as well as price, therefore, these obstinate and rogue miners will have to leave on their own (that's basically why there is no tomorrow for Bitcoin miners of today anyway). After that, Bitcoin may finally get a boost in its development no longer constrained by this generation of reactionary miners

i agree that bitcoin seems to be a little more stagnate then taking steps backwards at this point. im hoping things will start moving forward with bitcoin again soon. on that note... is there absolutely nothing we nonminers using the bitcoin network could do to help make the situation progress in a positive manner for miners bitcoin value and the entire bitcoin community? i think maybe seeing what could be done to appease everyone might end up speeding things along... also like almost everyone these days the miners seem to be thinking of short term solutions for long term problems... wish they would think outside the average thought box and start thinking about long term solution for short term problems or excessively long term solutions for long term problems.