The longer we wait, the higher the social entropy of this situation gets. By this i mean two things, one devs get old, die, slow down on development, and ultimately, lose popularity share to future newcomer devs, and two, the longer we wait and make excuses for ourselves, the more the attitude of "we can just do it later " will saturate in everybody's minds. We only need about 5-10 years before this social entropy can become similar to what was with Core, given this time could be similar to last. That's about 5 years to get this done, to scale in preparation for worldwide adoption.
Our focus should be on scaling. If we never get schnorr sigs fully implemented and optimized, that might be sad, but bitcoin would still succeed. Same with avalanche, it might be a sad loss, but bitcoin would still suceed. If we don't scale properly, Bitcoin WILL NOT succeed, and we would be stuck later down the road.
The next time we will be prevented from raising the BSL, they probably won't lean on the centralization excuse, there more likely to back, pontificate on, and exaggerate the current sentiment that we're just currently not ready for a BSL and should wait, except its going to end up being indefinitely.
I agree that a slow and steady, careful approach is optimal in a vacuum. But we aren't in a vacuum. We are in reality. And the current devs won't remain in power forever.
We don't just need to scale as usage increases, we need to scale while we remain in power to do so, with our capability of handling it well enough.
Bitcoin Cash adoption is increasing at a rapid rate. BTC is probably about to die. Tether is likely close too. CSW is likely about to lose in the legal system. The governments and masses are starting to recognize us. And Ethereum's Vitalik is looking to us for answers. We are going to have a massive increase of onchain usage, and we need to be prepared, before new subversion attempts meant to stop our scaling and adoption efforts sink in.
Economics and blockchain incentives says that its easy to protect current consensus rules, but harder to implement new ones. While we're smaller, while we CAN increase the BSL, we should. Why are we waiting? Why can't we fundraise for or direct the last fundraiser at accelerating xthinner and graphene and all that fancy stuff?
Does nobody besides me see not increasing the bsl asap as a risk, especially with our new competition BSV, which i believe is using reverse psychology on us to slow our growth? I think we need to prioritize scaling before everything else. I think there should do a BSL increase every hard fork personally. It would work to help manage that social entropy. And this social entropy is also going to get worse as BCH is adopted, so we definitely need to scale before then.
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