"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The key is maintaining the velocity of growth and innovation high enough so that the adversary can't catch you. It helps if the FED are an incompetent cabal.

this is a very good discussion but I am just wondering if we should discuss this publicly in such a public forum

Why not? It's hardly a secret as it seems to be first thing people think of when they hear about Bitcoin. (But let's not forget the great efficiency gains!)

Speaking of "letter writing", this might be of interest to you:

https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=1342.0

At the moment, the biggest threat to this project is being technically incapable of surpassing 33% of Paypal's average daily volume (much less VISA's transaction volume, or world total USD volume).

How can we sell bitcoin to serious investors, with built-in limitations like the 463 transactions/minute limit?

I don't think we should question satoshi at every step. He gave us this great protocol (it's no more than that actually) and that's it. If we are not happy about a decision, we can change it, should the network deteriorate we can switch. Satoshi's done very much, and I don't think he has all these evil intentions everyone is dreading. I understand the need to be skeptical sometimes but in this case I think we have a fairly good idea of what satoshis intentions are: creating a nice little payment system that could one day be able to compete with the big players out there, not the world domination 

I was stating the fact of the matter. We truly don't really know why Satoshi did the thing he did. Yes, there are guesses and speculation.  No matter how accurate they are, they are just speculation and guesses.

bitcoin will never become big (or bigger than what it is already) for 1 simple reason: ANONYMITY.

anonymity and money just don't go together. US government and EU won't allow this thing to make a step further.

Tax avoidance, money laundering, no control over big transactions... Soon even prepaid cards will be dead, because VISA says it's all gambling money, terrorist money, there's no control etc.

ACTA, COICA, DIRECT, Cyber laws etc etc. In it's current form Bitcoin has no future. There's just no green light for it.