So what are the OTHER safe & reliable methods of "addressing scalability issue" without increasing the block size ?
Obviously. Read through this topic carefully, instead of just barking around like a rabid chihuahua, and you will find at least a few good ideas.
But they won't get a chance to really develop and built the infrastructure, as long as the transactions are free. So forcing transactions to stay free is probably the best strategy to kill these so needed innovations.
1. I don't really have time to go through the whole topic - sorry. So please tell me which of these propositions you think should replace the increase of block size.
2. Transactions are supposed to be free - that is the foundation of Bitcoin. That is how Satoshi envisioned it. He also said very clearly that the
block size limit is a temporary measure to protect the network from DDoS.
The way i see things is that you want do a hard fork and completely change the basics of Bitcoin instead of doing the thing that is natural and already designed by Satoshi - increasing the block size. And i think that is one hell of a dumb idea.
Why create a new untested solution when we already have a solution ?