I haven't seen this excellent recent blog post by Eli Dourado referenced here: https://readplaintext.com/how-should-bitcoin-be-governed-680192fcd92b
I agree with his conclusions: we need better communication/organization mechanisms among 'stakeholders' and between the various factions (developers, miners, merchants, exchanges, end-users). And the preliminary results of using a prediction market to try to wrestle with the tough tradeoffs looks roughly correct to me, too: https://blocksizedebate.com/ (my only big disagreement with those predictions is the 'Number of nodes' -- I don't think replace-by-fee would affect that number, and I think even with no change we will see the number of full nodes on the network drop to a couple thousand, because the general-purpose-home-PC is headed the way of the dodo: http://www.businessinsider.com/pc-sales-plummet-in-q2-2015-gartner-idc-say-2015-7 ). -- -- Gavin Andresen
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