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)
I dont know, but one thing is for sure Hearn did tremendous damage and he did it on purpose and thats whats so disgusting in this whole matter. Like some kid who destroys your toy after you told him that he isnt allowed to play with.
I dont want to have folks like him in the dev team no matter what stance on the blocksize issue they have.