So fees are getting stupid (some as high as $160), Segwit adoption is slow and the lightning network is still a ways off. The price is being affected and BTC market dominance is almost at all time lows.
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?
If we delay too long BTC will lose its dominance and when that happens it is all over.
Let's drop the tribalism, the bickering, and just do what is in the interest of BTC. An increase in blocksize will not be the end to decentralization, it's been almost 10 years since BTC began hard drive sizes have increased substantially in that time and the cost has come down substantially.
Obviously ligheneing network has been in talks from months now . But is increasing the block size too easy ?
No !! That is not . That would need a major updation and that is something they are not able to achieve from months now . This is just the point where everybody has gone far from their threshold points because of the transaction thing . I think things will get better . Just don't simply dump bitcoin when it needs the most support . Just a temporary thing which is going to get resolved very soon.