There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also...
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) folks are anti-scalability, even though they pretend to be pro-scalability
(Apologies for the conspiracy theory here 😀)
Their priority was to block Lightning, hence they refused to put Segwit on their chain as Segwit included fixes that enabled Lightning
They blocked Lightning, because they wanted to force transactions on-chain. They know this can't scale, but they don't care because they are miners and they want higher fees. To release the pressure, they propose a bigger block as this would centralise nodes and only (big) miners could run nodes
If the BCH folks cared about scalability, they would have enthusiastically embraced Lightning - and all Layer 2 tech - alongside a bigger blocksize.
(Apologies for the conspiracy theory here 😀)
Their priority was to block Lightning, hence they refused to put Segwit on their chain as Segwit included fixes that enabled Lightning
They blocked Lightning, because they wanted to force transactions on-chain. They know this can't scale, but they don't care because they are miners and they want higher fees. To release the pressure, they propose a bigger block as this would centralise nodes and only (big) miners could run nodes
If the BCH folks cared about scalability, they would have enthusiastically embraced Lightning - and all Layer 2 tech - alongside a bigger blocksize.
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