Most that know me here would know that i am not a developer and far from an expert on the bitcoin code but what i am is a daily user of bitcoin because I believe strongly in what a decentralized currency like this can do for the world, well that and i no longer wish to support the debt based system we currently have with fiat currencies that is doing nothing to help the world.
As an everyday bitcoin user i do run into some problems with transactions sometimes taking a little longer than usual to confirm but as long as i have calculated the fee correctly and the network isn't being hit with a spam attack i would say 95% of my transactions receive the first confirmation within 30min max, most within 10min.
One thing i have noticed is that fees have gone up quite a bit in the last couple of years, when once a fee of $0.05 was enough to get my single input tx into the next block now it's more like $0.50 and fingers crossed it makes the next block, still cheap but if fees keep rising this fast people like me will be priced out of the maker soon enough.
Keep in mind that most transactions i send are small with only a couple of inputs max, i hear from businesses that accept bitcoin payments that the fees to transfer all those small payments they receive throughout the fortnight to another address can cost tens of dollars now!
So for someone like myself who uses bitcoin just about daily but is not a bitcoin expert the scaling debate can be a nightmare to navigate, especially when censorship on some forums is thrown into the mix.
I like Bitcoin Unlimited as a scaling solution, from what i have read it seems to be the bitcoin i have grown to love, the team has the best interest of bitcoiners at heart but i just haven't yet read anything that convinces me enough that the Unlimited hardfork can be safely implemented, i know it has been done before but that was years ago when the user base was a lot smaller and less at stake.
On the surface at least SegWit seems less scary to implement with less for the average user to do other than make sure the wallet they are using has upgraded what they need to but I'm sure it has it's own downsides that people will point out to me.
So what i need is some links or answers to what plans Bitcoin Unlimited has to safely implement a hard fork on the network.
And by safely i mean so that there is no chance of an average user like myself loosing coins or faith in bitcoin.