... und keiner weiss, wie lange der Schwarm die Nullen und Unternullen in der Entwicklung noch toleriert. Abertausende Transaktionen warten auf Bestätigung.

Justus Ranvier:

Reminder that the block size limit hard fork was supposed to happen in 2013.

All of this could have been avoided, but the group of vandals who took over development in 2013 choose this outcome on purpose.

Jeff Garzik:

"Just paid $0.19 equiv. in #bitcoin transaction fees, to send $2.00 equiv. in BTC."

@ydtm:

We don't need "permission" from Core/Blockstream in order to upgrade our software to keep our network running.

Core/Blockstream will continue to stay in power - until the day comes when they can no longer stay in power.

It always takes longer than expected for that final tipping point to come - but eventually it will come, and then things might start moving faster than expected.

Implementations such as Bitcoin Unlimited are already running 100% compatible on the network and - ready to rescue Bitcoin if/when Core/Blockstream's artificially crippled implementation fails.

Smarter miners like ViaBTC have already switched to Bitcoin Unlimited if/when Core/Blockstream's artificially crippled implementation fails.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/59epa0/coreblockstreams_artificially_tiny_1_mb_max/