The miners shot down the four proposals to increase block size, even the tiny 2MB increase.<p>Increased competition to get in on the smaller blocks leads to larger transaction fees.  Miners benefit from people competing to have their transactions hashed in the next block.<p>If the userbase scales, the competition goes up and transaction fees go higher.  If everyone could get their transactions through on a larger block, they&#x27;re going to pay almost no fee and miner&#x27;s make less.