Good point. There is one guy in he thread who doubts that ETH will scale. He stays quite meta but sounds credible because he gives one or two good reasons. Still it's hard to judge if it's just a claim or is it substantial, is it crucial for the success anyway?
This whole cryptothing feels like gambling, 'put all your money on red, red will win..'
The state of the art for theoretical blockchains is that, to maintain security, you need every single node to process every single transaction. No proposed solution to fix this can maintain anywhere near the same level of security, and while we are making progress on that issue, I think it's still pretty far away.
This whole cryptothing feels like gambling, 'put all your money on red, red will win..'