Is this a proposal to change to 2MB with no other changes? Are the blacklists, segwit and anything else omitted from this proposal? This block size war has got out of hand, and even that small proposed change will probably start another month of arguments.

Any blocksize change can be done only by forking, there is no other way. So when community accept said solution then yes, fork will happen.

Well, it's a hell of a time to start all this up again; Classic only just hit the deck, plus the Core team are in the middle of getting 0.12 out. Gavin seems to be part of more PR campaigns than he is coding teams these days

almost like trying to flank classic... maybe they feel the campaign aint going so well for them, lately...?

also, gavin's been paid by coinbase at some point before hasn't he ?

is he still ?

The guy's trying to save BTC. I hope he will be successful but it's hard to be optimistic. He failed last year because of rats who don't want to change anything which would reduce their domination. Gavin's brave! Without him, or people like him, BTC would be dead already. What is going to happen when there will be 300,000 transactions each day? Then 500,000. I'd like to dream there's one million transactions everyday, but that's impossible at this stage. Too many miners just don't want BTC to grow.

Let's all get behind this and move on FFS.

Excellent!

Isn't this what a lot of people have been asking for?

Whad'ya say Core?  Time to end this war?

It is because of the uncertainty behind the future of Bitcoin.

If the core devs were not so against any kind of increase in the max block size then the market would react differently. When the first block that "voted" for XT was mined someone sold 20k BTC on bitfinex (likely because of the uncertainty)

That is possible. However if BIP 102 takes off then it would be clear evidence that Bitcoin is on track to be successful over the long term.