That's no mic drop. A mic drop is a victorious action, taken only when your wordplay has been so devastatingly erudite that there is no possible way your opponent would embarrass himself by trying to follow it up.
Mike's blog post is what is known colloquially as 'throwing in the towel'.
"ragequit" in the modern urban net slang.
That's the second time he ragequited after saying he had enough and will work for the banks

I guess the powers that be needed him to re-quit in order to use the article that he wrote and spread it now that the other markets are failing... "
See bitcoin has failed too"...says an ex-bitcoin dev, type of narrative. Cheap tricks that work.