Nope, Mike went to New York Times, told "Bitcoin is dead!" and informed the public about the ongoing inner-Bitcoin fight. THAT did fucking damage to BTC and was completely unnecessary!
Its not about big or small blocks its about being a fucking dramaqueen!
It appears to be too much of a coincidence the timing of it all with this --
https://youtu.be/R0iArSIU0Z8?t=47m16sLooks to me to be a coordinated attack by R3.(42 banks against bitcoin)