If the devs rush out a fix and it fails, or take too long, I will have questions about bitcoins ability to compete long term, even with the head start. Bitcoins greatest enemy is not governments or a lack of usefulness, it is competing cryptos, and if a crypto exists with 10x more developers, it will win.
So you really think that alternate cryptos have larger, smarter, and more well funded development teams than bitcoin? And the Bitcoin protocol being real-world stress tested on a global scale for vulnerabilities for over the last 4 years, while almost all of the new alts have been around less than a year (in some cases < 6 months)? And some of them not even based on the bitcoin code, but some dodgy custom code written by obscure developers, that hasn't even been fully tested and vetted?
Hmmm... yeah, competing cryptos will win.
