"We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures" https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
And Segwit is removing this signatures from Bitcoin into separate application. I wonder if it remains it remains Bitcoin or smth. else? Satoshi did it one way and Core is doing something completely different.
Your appeal to authority should not carry much if any weight. Do you realize that Satoshi has not participated in anything related to bitcoin since sometime in 2010. He pretty much vanished. Whether he is dead or not does not matter because bitcoin is no longer about one person, but instead a product of a community and such community is going down the segwit road. The current status of bitcoin includes segwit, so sure either you can work to attempt to improve or to evolve segwit, but the consensus is segwit and that is the new and improved bitcoin (whether you personally believe it is improved or not)
And, by the way, this segwit is not "completely different"; it is an evolution and a new phase of bitcoin.. Is it going to have plusses and minuses, possibly, but arguing about whether a done deal should not be a done deal, seems a big fucking waste of time, because it is here and part of our current status quo bitcoin.
So let's say straightforward: BIP148 undoing Bitcoin into smth else. Bitcoin is being destroyed with its place being taken by smth completely different.
BIP148 did not activate or go into effect. BIP91 was locked in before BIP148, and maybe you are referring to BIP141? Anyhow, BIP141 (seg wit) is in the process of locking in and then activating.. that is right.
Why on earth, under suck circumstances, should we adopt this shit, instead of just increasing block size of what we all know and love as Bitcoin, which main definition is, as u know: "electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures"
What do you think about this, my dear friend?
It's already locking in and activating, what can "we" do about it? It already has overwhelming consensus, so why fight it? just work with it, and if you don't like it, then find another more suitable coin and invest in that. You can choose the extent to which you invest in bitcoin, and if you believe that bitcoin has become less valuable, then you can direct your finances towards other projects and even diversify a bit.
I personally see no reason to take my money out of bitcoin or to consider bitcoin as diminishing in value because of seg wit. I consider segwit to be very good for bitcoin, and it has pretty much been uncontroversially good for bitcoin on a technical level since it's late 2015 introduction. Sure, later in 2016, the big blocker nutjobs begun to spin segwit as if it were some kind of controversy, and the fact of the matter is that it is very widely received, except for by fringe elements that are trying to distort it and to describe seg wit as some kind of monster because they are merely in the ongoing process of being disgruntled and spreading of disinformation and emotions and ongoingly wanting to be involved in the direction of bitcoin in spite of their lack of an ability or a willingness to attempt to work within the open and democratic systems that are already existing through core.