It may be, to some degree, FUD on the part of SV supporters, but I am getting leery about proposed additional changes to BCH I've heard rumors of, including "Avalanche," "pre-consensus" and possibly even lowering the block time? I'm not talking about minor tweaks, I'm talking about significant changes like that?
I honestly think the every-six-month planned hardforks are becoming a liability, especially going forward. I understand there may have been a need originally to escape the do-nothingism of Core, but even if BCH has, possibly, seen the end of (considerable involvement from) Craig Wright and nChain, I'm sure it hasn't seen the end of "Craig Wrights." That is, if BCH is successful or promising in the future, there will be more contention, more divisive personalities. It's just inevitable because the community has to get bigger to be a success, by definition.
People building on BCH have already been divided and spooked enough by this latest controversy. The significant changes to the protocol, especially as enforced by some kind of pre-set deadline need to stop and focus shift to simply keeping the thing running while businesses build and attract customers.
BCH is supposed to be the business-friendly fork, as typified by willingness to scale on-chain, not the endless protocol-tinkering fork--at least, that's how I understood it. If I'm wrong about the priorities of the current BCH community it may be time to look elsewhere, because I'm interested in a crypto that's focusing on adoption and applications and stability now, not one that is going to be an ongoing science project.
I understand safe zero-conf is a killer app for BCH, but I also understand that it already pretty much works fine for most everyday purchases. I don't think optimizing too much in advance of perceived, possible, but not actually common threats is necessary or useful; rather, it may hurt more than it helps in terms of the uncertainty and potential for further community division it creates.
Sorry if this sounds overly negative; I don't mean it as a slam to the devs at ABC or any other team, who I know have been working like crazy to keep things running and who all understand the technical ins and outs way better than I; I'm just concerned.
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