Strange isn't.


Services like Blockchain.info and Coinbase were pushing so hard to change the Bitcoin developers to some of their friends, er, I mean to fork Bitcoin to a bigger blocksize.

Now? Bigger blocksize is available for over 3 months, but Blockchain.info and Coinbase aren't making it available to their users. Interesting.


Why cause massive arguments about blocksizes, then refuse to use a feature that let's people use extra blocksize??

I think those who have the most money control this game,and who has more power and money then miners&exchanges.They are making fortune every time when events like this price increase occur,in order to get transaction confirmed in some normal time users pay terribly high fees.This seems to me a only logical explanation of this situation,we have something which can make transaction faster and cheaper but we can not use it because big players want to play by the old rules.Profit on fees which make exchanges and miners will be the biggest obstacle in implementing SegWit&LN.

Remember that coinbase users still haven't gotten their Btrash? So it could take a while before it actually gets done. The sooner the better. Malicious intent or not, with all the revenue they're getting from all the new users and the outrageous fees they charge, they should be able to easily pay for a small team that will get it fixed by next week. That's the problem I have with these bigger centralized companies. They net millions of dollars every single day but yet they still fail to deliver quality customer service(thus is just an example). If LN is proven to be a viable solution and fully operational on the main chain we have to force them

hope the lightning network will be deployed soon, the bitcoin fee becomes a big issue now, it is ridiculous.

It cannot be both. There's a choice:

• Low waiting time, High fee
• High waiting time, Low fee

High waiting time high fee would mean paying low fees to get low waits. Bitcoin never would have become popular if that's how transaction fees worked.


So, if you pay low (9.5 satoshis per byte), you'll get slow confirmation times.

Space on the blockchain is limited for a reason. The alternative is to have people wanting to justify CryptoKittens traded on the Bitcoin blockchain; the only way to stop people using something valuable for mindless purposes is to start charging money for it.



Or Bitcoin Cash. But there's a reason why Bitcoin devs limited the September blocksize upgrade to 4MB. And there's a reason why Bitcoin Cash can't get enough users to fill 1MB blocks (let alone the 8MB limit).