One of the things that attracted me to bitcoin - with credit cards, the flow of money belongs to the the wealthy and that gave them power.

With bitcoin, the flow of value was returned to the people.

I didn't have to meet the rules of a bank to open a merchant account. I didn't have to keep meeting the rules of the bank or worry about my account being closed. I didn't have to keep giving a piece of every sale to a bank. A financial institution no longer controlled the flow of money.

Now what I see happening with bitcoin, a group of people (blockstream) is trying to take over the flow of value. They are doing this by keeping the block too small for normal transactions to succeed without their SegWit solution that they control, good luck running your own SegWit solution if you are not wealthy, so people like you and me will be forced to use their off-chain accounting that they control in order to use Bitcoin.

The vision of Satoshi returned power over the flow of value back to the people where it belongs. Ordinary people, extraordinary people. Rich people, poor people. Dumb people, smart people. Conservative, liberal, socialist, libertarian. The blockchain didn't give a sh*t who we were. That is changing and Satoshi's vision is being raped.

This is not something we can let happen. We have the power to prevent, we have the power to fire core. We more than have the power, we have the responsibility to fire core.