Personally, I'm very exited for Segregated Witness however bigger block are cool also. (A wallet developer said that transaction malleability is going to be solved).
Hi and welcome!
If you are excited for Segregated Witness* imho you should ask yourself and others some questions:
1. SW should be ready by April, where is it and which wallets have implemented it so far?
2. Why is it rolled out as a soft fork with an unnecessary amount of additional code instead of a hard fork everybody would be ok with?
3. Why is it sold as a scaling solution although it doesn't reduce the size of transmitted and stored data at all? (If you get fussy, it adds a few bytes instead..)
4. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to let a central authority decide to give a discount for (complex) SW transactions?
SW and bigger blocks aren't related. These are completely different topics, one is about scaling the other one about data handling and maybe malleability.
If Core played nice they could have had a clean hard fork with SW + 2 MB BS and everybody would be somewhat happy and we could have civil discussions.
*Most, almost everybody, think SW is a nice cleanup, if done properly aka in a hardfork..
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After this CSW (at least he managed to burn his initials into my brain) mess, if you asked 'cui bono' everything points at core & BS. It's just a nutty conspiracy theory but if you wanted to discredit Gavin there are 2 points you like to address:
1. The respect he has b/c Satoshi chose him to keep the project going and the relationship he had with Satoshi.
2. His (limited) abilities in the field of cryptography.
Maybe CSW tried to "get outed" as Satoshi last winter and failed. BS created a nice plan to gloss over the fact that April is over and there is no scaling and blocks are full. They take the wannabe-Satoshi, pay all expenses and something extra and pull off this charade. And it didn't take them a day to kick Gavin off Github and dig out a quote about him giving Satoshi commit rights as soon as he wants.
Other than that I still find the possibility of an advanced fee scam sadly to be very probable. And it would somewhat explain the weird behavior by Grigg and JVP. They are inaugurated in a "complex plot" CSW and his guys invented and they still believe it.
The crypto guys aren't the worst audience for a big time scammer, on one hand they're able to check your evidence and might want technical proof. On the other hand they are very receptive to conspiracy theories, puzzles and complex stories full of half-truths and mysteries.
Additionaly, maybe he is the guy who hacked Satoshis account and tried to use the information he got from all the emails to make himself into a bitcoin expert, which didn't work as expected. But it would explain the sparks of wisdom in his articles and interviews.
He then chose plan B, to become Satoshi, b/c he had to do something with the information. Would explain why Gavin believed him as he had enough time to read all their email exchanges.
