>Sticking with PoW long term is my only concern about Bitcoins ability to remain relevant. I share your concerns, and if the whole segwit debacle is any indica

>Sticking with PoW long term is my only concern about Bitcoins ability to remain relevant. I share your concerns, and if the whole segwit debacle is any indication, getting Bitcoin to switch away from PoW will be a political nightmare. The only thing that might get such a hard-fork deployed on Bitcoin is an extinction-level threat from a sizable competitor (e.g. ETH).