Having two characters BC represent Bitcoin also feels political, as though it is an effort to pretend that there arent alt coins with significant merit.
First, Bitcoin invented this field and if you feel that its natural privileged from doing so is "political" then I really don't see a need to continue discussion with you. If you don't want to put Bitcoin first that's your decision and not something I mind, but don't you dare demand that people who have more or less dedicated their life to it to do worse work on Bitcoin in order to facilitate whatever competing systems that you prefer.
What??? Let's not continue discussing it then. I don't own any alt coins other than ones I acquired incidentally, like physical litecoins and some XRP from a giveaway and whatever has been bestowed upon me from forks. I refused all efforts to persuade me to make physical altcoins of any kind. Let's assume my loyalty is to Bitcoin Core and I'm interested in its success. My effort in asking for your attention might make more sense.
If you feel you have earned the privilege of shortening the letter T out of BTC to keep it from being worse, then I'm just going to agree with you, because I've done nothing to earn the privilege to be the one who decides which is better or whether to take it out.
Secondly, we actually made significant design considerations specifically to facilitate altcoins ... Too bad you're too blinded to see it.
assuming, of course, that I'm an altcoin pusher. If I felt that "BC" was political and I was wrong, then I made a guess and I was wrong. Bitcoin Cash having the same initials is an unfortunate coincidence that might make such a wrong guess seem reasonable. I would have wanted to see BTCxxxx instead of bc1xxxx but it's your proposal and not mine. I am indeed a bit blind, that's why 1 and L's are so problematic for people like me sometimes.
on that 1MB of block space
I guess you missed this part of nullius' reply?
no, I saw it. He already knows I probably mean with witness data excluded and the difference isn't going to round the current fee back to any level that makes it reasonable to give someone some bitcoin rather than an altcoin to play with or test cryptocurrency for the first time.
I am sorry that popping up with "constructive criticism" out of the blue without much in the way of reintroduction or community engagement probably seems more confrontational in the absence of regular positive contributions to the project's development. I'm actually sad because I'm embarrassed to be explaining $30 transaction fees to people and no way to avoid them other than switching to altcoins or trusting in scalability solutions still not ready for prime time, so I'm motivated to show up and whine a little about the factor common to both issues: the plausible appearance of neglect to basic user experience. I accept that the risk with my approach is that my input will likely be completely disregarded, and I appreciate that you've paid what seems like quality attention to what I felt was worth saying.