Bitcoin is hopeless if majority of miners are evil. I don't think this will happen. I am just responding to jdillon's accusation:
Sorry, I wasn't talking to you.
It was more of a general comment, because I see it all the time (in other threads, but also outside the forum) that people are complaining about, or just using a term: "evil miners".
There is no such thing!
IMHO, miners are the least who would want this currency to not succeed. And people trying to overthrow the designed "bitcoin government", because they believe they found a more fair solution for the democracy, or whatever - it's just silly, not to use again the wold "stupid". They either don't understand what they are talking about (meaning: they don't know shit about how bitcoin works) - or they are expecting a miracle... I don't see a third option.
Miners are the government of this currency: like it or not, it is the fact and you cannot do anything about it. If they decide to increase or decrease a block size, or whatever else, they can just do it and no developer, nor any other self proclaimed genius, will be able to stop them - face it! If bitcoin users didn't follow any miners' decision - as I said: that would be their suicide.
Moreover "evil" is a religious term, so please if you are people of science, stop using it and start thinking in terms of what is technically possible, instead of what you think you should do in order to go to heaven.