Some Core supporters mistakenly think that Core will still eventually raise the blocksize cap with a hard fork. Core have already set the precedent that they will not with segwit2x failure. The pressure to increase blocksize has left for BCH and is routing around BlockStream Dam.

I have noticed a few Core supporters still hope and think that Core will eventually do a hardfork blocksize limit upgrade. Bitusher is a great example of this, he thinks they can still raise block cap even after a measly 2MB upgrade failed to pass with segwit2x and the false New York Agreement, while fees and unreliable transactions were at an all time high. Personally I think that ship has sailed for BTC-Core and they will never increase blocksize capacity. I think BCH has a lot to do with it. The pressure to increase blocks came from BCH and the Bitcoin early adopter community. It came from people that actually use Bitcoin. We were the ones that always believed in Satoshi's vision.

This was actually a large part why the 2MB even failed, it was because a large portion of the community decided to join BCH instead and abandon the crippled segwit chain. The pressure to increase blocks had left for somewhere else. Even when fees reached record highs of $20 and $30 per transaction, sometimes much more, the Core community still refused even a tiny hard fork capacity increase. This set a major precedent that they will never increase block capacity with a hard fork. There are countless examples of people who are now BCH supporters that considered this the final straw to break the camels back. Roger Ver is a perfect example, it was when the segwit2x movement failed, that he put all bitcoin.com resources to BCH. Ryan X Charles is another example.

With BCH's creation it has siphoned off a lot of the pressure that was being put on the BlockStream Dam. You can think of the stream of transactions as a raging river and BlockStream Dam is there blocking the flow with the 1MB cap. They have a bunch of AXA funded neck beards on the dam controlling the flow rate and they refuse to open the flood gates and allow the stream to grow. Things were getting violent for a while, with a 200K backlog flood of transactions and giant fees, until BCH was formed as a tributary a little upstream, routing around the dam. BCH had alleviated the pressure on the BlockStream Dam. The water/transactions/businesses started flowing down a new route.

I think that the dam operators and community won't bother opening the flood gates on BlockStream Dam anymore because the water just isn't as high, its flowing somewhere else (to BCH). On top of that, they have a giant censorship created cult community wearing hats and signs that say NO2x and they are picketing outside the dam to keep the flood gates closed in the name of "decentralization" (although they misunderstand what that term means). As more water/transactions/users are onboarded onto the system it just flows around the dam and they keep their 1MB cap, the Bitcoin Cash tributary grows and eventually becomes the main river, while the tiny BlockStream Stream becomes irrelevant. Trying to stop BCH is like trying to stop a raging river, or stop the tides, or stop an avalanche. Nature takes over. There is a reason why they say Honey Badger don't care. There is now only one Bitcoin that can bring economic freedom to everyone in the world, and that is Bitcoin Cash.

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