Quote from: hsmst4 on September 07, 2017, 12:39:45 PM

I'm a bit late to the bitcoin party but am investing now because I understand and believe in the potential. Need some help from the group though...

Transaction speed, scalability, confusing forks to new coins, transaction fees, etc... These things all seem to be the key barriers to widespread adoption and success of the bitcoin itself. I know development is constantly working on these issues but there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement between the core devs and the miners on the best way to proceed. Segwit2x was a sure thing, but now maybe not? Increase block size yes or no? Ideas like Lightning Network may or may not help? I think everyone agrees that scalability and speed MUST happen but there are some hard liners that are faithful to the original core blockchain design.

I totally believe that the democracy and decentralization is vital. But I'm worried it may be the very undoing of the success of the chain. How can bitcoin be a competitive currency option if it takes 8 hours and $800 to process a transaction? Or will it just be a mechanism for storing significant wealth?

Any devs or miners that can make me feel better???

Segwit2x = terrorists against bitcoin trying to undermine the project by putting goverment agents like Jeff Garzik (see bloq: https://twitter.com/coinalytics/status/836219314780909569) trying to steal the bitcoin brand by bribing miners into this mess.

Bitcoin Cash = Roger Ver and Bitmain's playground to test things out, also crap.

We must avoid Segwit2x at all costs.

Core devs = engineers.

Miners = janitors.

Hardforkers = opportunists.