> You can't promote it just as you can't promote Litecoin or any other different protocol and ledger.
That's malarkey. Not a day goes by that Lightning Network isn't heavily promoted.
Lightning, for the uninitiated, is the "scaling solution" that's going to "fix" Bitcoin by completely turning the original protocol into a settlement layer for an entirely new, incomplete, untested, and full-of-holes payments network.
This complete rewrite of the Bitcoin protocol is being foisted on the community take-it-or-leave-it, but we can't discuss increasing the base protocol to even a modest 2MB, because "that would be promoting a different protocol and ledger."
I hope that non-redditors can appreciate the profound, biting irony in the situation for the BS it actually is.
Basically the only thing you see on /r/bitcoin for the last 10 months is discussion on this issue, constantly.
Yeah, people who say "Developer Joe blow is a fraud, download the superior Bitcoin classic" get their posts removed. That's moderation. (And it is moderation that actually didn't happen for many months before things got so out of control.)