I think it is about time that we raise the block size, to give segwit adoption and LN more time. Being that the blocksize increase would be done by core we can trust they'll do it right, so why shouldn't it be done?
i agree. we needed the block size increase with SegWit2x (New York) agreement. everyone was on board, miners, businesses, wallets,... but developers weren't so the community didn't get on board either. and that was the thing that activated SegWit in first place!
and now nobody is implementing SegWit, the big wallets like blockchain.info and Coinbase aren't doing it. exchanges apart from 2 or 3 aren't implementing it. and people are still not using it.
If we delay too long BTC will lose its dominance and when that happens it is all over.
it will lose dominance but it won't be for long.
because altcoins have the same scaling issues and then some more.
what will bitcoin lose its dominance to?
bitcoin cash? BitPay is going to start accepting it so i am expecting more adoption of it but it is just delaying the inevitable with its block size increase alone without a second layer solution like LN. and if it implements something like LN then why use BCH then!!!
ETH? the scaling issue of it is worse than bitcoin's! it can't even handle ICOs on it and everything goes south with a simple smart contract like cryptokitties!
LTC? it is the copy of bitcoin with more orphans. so no solution there.
XRP? it is not even a currency and it is heavily centralized, if you want a centralized currency then use Paypal or credit cards,...
these new DAG-based coins? they aren't handling that much more transactions than bitcoin. they still have to scale more, and running a full node and becoming a witness is nearly impossible, in other words lack of decentralization.
what else?