Here's teh proposed solution as it stands today.
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The only thing Bitcoin has going for them now is Branding...even my retired neighbor heard of it.  Alt-Coins were created to improve upon the blockchain technology...but they lack the branding.  I propose that Bitcoin should hard fork and adopt /rewrite/upgrade their blockchain protocol  to compete with today's Alt-Coins.  10 minute confirmations are so yesterday!  With BTC's current coding...the scalability problem  will be Bitcoin's downfall.

Not an easy issue. The fees and transaction times are just ridiculous at this time but on the other hand we don't want to make a rushed decision and mess everything up

Yeah, they need to just activate Segwit, Litcoin is doing fine, it's working. Just do it!

If Ethereum or Ethereum Classic can solve this issue, then we will see a new King Of Crypto! Mark my words...

Both sides just keep disagreeing and that won't change in the meantime. It's frustrating but.. what can we do? or at least me, being a minimal part of the bitcoin band.

For me - for the moment - I look at bitcoin as the savings account. I am not flipping coins to make money. That is why the world is already screwed up. I don't care how long it takes. As Ghandi said, "There is more to life, than speeding it up." I have physical gold and sliver, just like I have Bitcoin and Alt coins. Agreed, they need to sort it out, but sometimes new ideas can spawn while they are waiting, that may help towards making the decision. We are going digital what ever happens, some will fail, some will stay, but cash will be going forever.

I don't see any problem for a potential hardfork. This is the beauty of the blockchain after all. It doesn't have to dictate an ultimatum where one has to choose between one or another option. Let's have both.

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BItcoin's killer app to date is hellacious store of value. Doing nothing doesn't break that anytime soon. Worse case, Bitcoin becomes your savings account and Litecoin + Lightning, Decred, or whatnot becomes your personal wallet. Once into crypto, it is *trivial* to move some portion of your wealth into another blockchain. 

I don't like the idea of hardforking to large blocks before we get **efficiency** and that's what SegWit offers--along with a long shopping list of other innovations. 

IMO the illogical and emotional appeals of the big block camp with their buggy code that has slammed their nodes like three times already, the ASIC boost, the Bitcoin 'Killswitch' in the ASIC chips... all of this points to more than just self interest and butt hurt.  I think the most logical and likely explanation is Chinese officials have given Jihan 'marching orders' to slowdown or break Bitcoin into smaller pieces that can be destroyed. Why Roger Ver doesn't see this suggests he's in very deep doo as well. Or maybe he just has a massively inflated overestimation of his own abilities? Remember he said Mt. Gox was OK.  There is a LOT of money at stake for the community, and total disintermediation on the not-too-distant horizon for not dumb state actors. This is a friggin' war that has to be fought.

In my opinion Bitcoin will fail. Can you trust a currency that is reliant on vulnerable technology?? With the creation of a number of new competing cryptocurrencies being developed and eventually diluting the market. If a cyber attack occurred would your Bitcoin be safe. Would you intrust thousands of dollars to the system? How long before Government infiltrate this technology and causes it to fail? Why would Government do that? Because central banks will not tolerate a currency that they do not have complete control over, thats why. If they cause a failure in the system, then people will lose confidence in them, unless of course the federal government comes to the rescue and offers to insure the currency FDICA baby. Look what they did to Precious metals. The feds found a way to manipulate it and fix it. The banks simply print and sell enough paper contracts to dilute the market. Some say that there are up to 200 hundred paper contracts per ounce of gold. The silver and gold markets are easily moved by the simple push of a computer key. They must regulate it in order to keep the value of the dollar intact. The same is true with cryto. If they let the market run, paper currencies would diminish in value. Is it possible that the cryptocurrency was ordained by the central banks as a trial to see if people would buy into this type of monetary system? But for now enjoy the wealth it has created, just don't think they will let the party continue.