Quote from: Kogs on April 17, 2018, 08:14:47 AM

I think we will see a block weight increase in the future.

But I also think that this should not be rushed.

The first step was to get Segwit which is essential for lot of future improvements including lightning.

But I guess lot of people did not understand that it's not done by just activating Segwit.
It's important that people and companies also use Segwit so it can show it's benefits.

And I think the only way it was possible to force companies to implement Segwit in their services was to reject the Segwit2X fork.

Companies usually first think about their money.
So what is cheaper for them?
Increasing the block weight where they don't have anything to do or hire some developers to implement Segwit in their software.

Of course the companies decide to go the easy and cheap way.

With the Segwit2X I think we would have temporarily solved the full blocks end of last year but I'm quite sure that nearly no company would have implemented Segwit on their side as everything is fine even without using Segwit.
Without the overfilled mempool end of last year (which might be caused by attacking the network with spam transactions), I also think that Segwit adoption by the big companies did not happen that "fast". Because of high transactions fees they were forced to implement Segwit and batching transactions to maintain their businesses.

Therefore I can completely understand that lot of people (including lot of Bitcoin Core team members) were against a block weight increase for now.
But I don't see this rejection of the 2X as "they are against an increase forever".

So in short. Segwit need to get adopted which would be much slower if also a block weight increase happened.
After adoption of Segwit and other soft fork scaling solutions I'm sure we will see also an increase of the block weight (maybe not in the near future, but it will come).

I don't see how. Please explain how consensus around increasing the blocksize is ever going to happen? Because again, it will only lead to 2 things:

1) Bitcoin will continue with 1MB as there will still be people mining and transacting on it
2) There will be a 2MB or whatever blocksize hardfork, which companies and exchanges will claim it's Bitcoin, even if Core team agrees, it doesn't make it Bitcoin

So you will have the legacy chain existing and the new chain existing, and we already have this (Bcash).

The blocksize cannot be increased, it will always lead to a new altcoin, which some may call Bitcoin. Bitcoin is basically impossible to hardfork at this point (without again, ending up with 2 coins).