content: That just it, apparently people won't decide for themselves. That's pretty much the whole problem here. Miners are not thinking about what's best for them and the currency and making their own decision. Instead they're just waiting for the core developers to make a decision and blindly following suit. They're just a bunch of sheep, and because so much of the mining power is concentrated in the Chinese miners who act this way, bitcoin is going nowhere until they make a decision.  You may not like him but he has a very solid point. The systemic mechanisms that are supposed to make bitcoin invulnerable to a shitty stalemate situation like this have failed for a few different reasons. If bitcoin can be stopped in it's tracks by just a few people this way then it has failed it's original purpose of being a decentralized trustless currency.