I think it will be too late, there are newer coins with much better tech, and less centralized mining available.

LN is activated already.
You can now use your LN node to pay for TorGuard on main net

The only reason those coins seem to have no scaling issues is because they lack scale to have scaling problems.

Hopefully soon. I think LN and Segwit should be at the top of the list. It would definitely help with the mempool spamming and all other BS

I also think 18month is gonna be to late  it is slowly starting to look like btc is slowly losing its attractiveness
since major companies like windows and steam dont accept btc payment anymore since the
fees aatm are ridiculous! and very slow so something reaaaally needs to be done about this.

i mean bcc has 8mb which is pretty sick compared to the 1mb of btc
(not saying that bcc is better or worse just stating the facts)

Agree 100% and they can play around like ETH with block sizes or timing but the old steam engine will not
go much faster and scale.

Nothing at all wrong with block-chain but Lightning is a useless sticking plaster that looks like a scam
to me and I am far from alone in saying this and they can forget playing us along for a completion data
because it would only take seconds for the development team to put a quick fix in for the crazy fees we
are being forced to pay.

public static money MaxFee=1.50 // 20,000 is too many miners, those that  don't like the rule are free to leave

I can only assume that the dev team have become greedy and are owned by the
bankers. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYHFrf5ci_g

Lets keep everything on the block and all we need is to use block-matrix to break the 200gb
of data down into a more manageable size and distribute that between nodes and yes it will
include some degree of centralization but no more than is being built into Lightning anyway

Already Bitcoin is full of scams so whats it all going to look like when half my data is on the
block and others parts are hidden away in private ledgers, do one thing or the other boys

That is understandable, Bitcoin happens to be the flagship cryptocurrency and parades the largest community. In the future and by what time Bitcoin must have moved on, we shall be seeing most of these acclaimed substitutes of Bitcoin bending over to lace their shoes and evidently Ethereum has began to feel the heat already.

Bitcoin gold isn't exactly a failure. Even Bitcoin Cash. They are two of the succesful cryptocurrency's that was created within Bitcoin's fork. A fail project will not even have a single cent of a value. I'm not a fan of those two coins mentioned, but we have to show some love with other alternative cryptos as they are the reason why the digital economy is booming these days. Of course, Bitcoin is the pioneer and will stand strong for years. However, without the creation of either Litecoin, Ethereum, DASH, etc. will it still have a movement of its price? I don't think so.