Quote from: ir.hn on December 18, 2017, 04:39:20 AM

Cloning bitcoin wouldn't be like halving the block time or doubling the mb. It would be like having thousands of mb blocks. A clone army. BC1 BC2 BC3 etc etc. It's ridiculous I know. You could have an inter-clone exchange. Its crazy but it would be cool and it would work to multiply the transactions that can happen at any given time.

You said it yourself. It would be like having thousands of mb blocks. Not to be rude but you should take some time to learn about the technical side of things a little more.

Quote from: gulliblehive on December 18, 2017, 05:30:41 AM

The question is, if on-chain-scaling is only a mediocre improvement at the best given current capabilities, then why are we pursuing it at all? a 100-500% increase probably won't make much of a difference since it still won't be in the ball-park needed to be used for small & instant transactions anyways.

I'm not saying that improving the on-chain scaling protocol isn't a good idea, only that unless someone introduces a radical improvement (nothing of the sort that has been suggested up until now), the focus should lie on developing other aspects of the protocol (instead of wasting time & resources on mediocrity).

Make improvement on things that can yield significant improvements, not mediocre improvements. Value prioritization.

This is where my own lack of technical knowledge starts to show through. Specifically, I do not know enough about off-chain scaling solutions to have a technical opinion on whether those solutions are actually Bitcoin scaling, or essentially alt coins. I.E. the reason for on chain scaling is that it IS Bitcoin.