Building big blocks is not enough. Alice does not care about big blocks, and she does not care about decentralized money. If we cannot provide Alice a service 1-2 orders of magnitude better than the legacy system, she is not switching to Bitcoin. We are not going anywhere until we solve this problem
Utility comes from cost savings over the alternative. Cost savings comes from censorship resistant use cases. Censorship resistant use cases come from distributed applications. The first coin to build a practical network of distributed applications is going to win. This is how that network will look
Apps like Uber/eBay/AirBnb/YouTube are the first generation of semi-decentralized applications. They showcase the power direct peer-to-peer trade enables. The next generation of fully decentralized apps will be the kingmaker of the crypto-wars. If DASH does not build them, we lose. It's that simple.
This post is not trying to call out jtoomim. He is 100% entitled to his opinion. He seems like a great guy. That being said, if BCHN embraces this culture of constant tinkering it will result in more contentious splits. The protocol isn't perfect, but it's good enough. Right now BCH needs stability.
