>I think that's a valid point, but we won't know how it will play out until we actually get there. That seems to be the consensus and that's my main issue with

>I think that's a valid point, but we won't know how it will play out until we actually get there. That seems to be the consensus and that's my main issue with the entire ordeal. We're talking about a $40 billion market cap currency, not a bittorent tracker. Maybe it would be worth taking a bit more time to run some simulations and figure out the long term plan? IMO looking mostly from the outside (I'm not heavily invested in any cryptocurrency) it would've been more reasonable to bump the block size a little bit in the short term (maybe 2 or 4MB) to let the current architecture carry its weight for a few more months or even years and take that time to come up with something better than "back of the envelope calculations", to cite what I read in some LN papers.