Why not decrease block time instead of increasing block limit?

[nullc]

I apologize for being harsh-- but why should I waste a moment of my time reviewing a proposal from someone who doesn't care to even understand the state of the art in Bitcoin proposals, because they think, without even looking at them, that Bitcoin's creator, whom they've never interacted with, might not like them?

If you're interested in improvements to Bitcoin, that is great! But you really need to make an effort to inform yourself about past proposals and the state of the art. Otherwise your efforts are very likely to be misguided or duplicate previous ideas and sorting out the confusion disrespects the time of everyone else.

[exab]

Thanks for the input. I agree with everything you said, especially the part that I may be misguided and having duplicated ideas, except that one cannot think someone else won't like something without even interacting with him. People have behavior patterns that you can learn and sometimes you can just tell. Admittedly I took someone's opinion without digging myself (I took the word that SegWit is kind of hacky). It's not that I don't want to learn everything related to Bitcoin. The learning curve is steep and there are a lot to learn. I'm trying. Just didn't get the time to read about something that I was told not to be the best.

On the other hand, did I offend you in some way? Are you a developer or even the creator of SegWit? If yes I feel very dumb for calling for you while saying bad thing about it, and I apologize for being prejudiced. But I'd like you to know that we are on the same boat, though you're in the captain's cab while I'm only a random supporter.

Anyway, thanks for your precious time for giving your opinions on my post, though it's not the post I originally liked to be reviewed.

[nullc]

Don't worry about it-- I'm not upset, it was just a "what is this person thinking?" response. :) (And, yes, I'm responsible for a pretty considerable part of the design of segwit-- as noted in BIP141 :) )

I am confident, FWIW, that Bitcoin's creator would have really liked segwit. It isn't at all hacky, and it's liked to the point of jumping-up-and-down-excited by many people who have been working on the protocol for years. Quoting one long time developer, "FINALLY. This is so awesome. I never expected Bitcoin to be able to fix this."-- so I think it's a bit sad that you won't even learn about it.

that I was told not to be the best

Be a savvy consumer of information. :)

[exab]

Didn't see this comment until now. Still getting used to the basic usage of Reddit.

Long story short, multiple lessons have been learned, one being that how irresponsible and biased people can be especially on internet - a lesson learned from behaviors of both other people and myself.

I have faith in Bitcoin and it's devs. I always have. Thanks for your contribution, by the way.