No fucking way.

We need checks and balances against abuse of power. Satoshi had the opportunity to operate anonymously by virtue of invention. These anonymous people aren't starting over from scratch. They are asking as much of a multi-billion dollar market cap technology with over $1B US to follow them, with no restraint on their control.

Proof that the current power structure can be split is a good thing, but the danger that this is an act of sabotage to stall further is too high.

If you take Circle, Digital Asset Holdings, and Blockstream's funding out of the number, we've only seen $95k in VC money going into Bitcoin in 2016. That's a precipitous drop in investment.

Startups plan for 12-18 months of runway when they raise money.

95% of crypto companies that raised in 2014 and 2015 are going to run out of money in 2017. We're looking at the slow heat death of the infrastructure built around Bitcoin.

Another major fork/alt development fail will cause even more demoralization and delay. That, plus the funding environment drought is going to set this back years.

The most cost effective way to redirect direction way from a p2p broadcast network to a hub based switch network / bank L2 scheme is to stall. This will kill off the infrastructure built natively, and create a clean slate to build services off L2, sidechains, or other more controllable schemes.

This isn't crazy talk. It's the game plan.