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.
Yes, I am glad he contributed so little to core , so we don't have to re-audit all his code.
Whether this is merely an opportunistic bearwhale shaking the weak hands to buy more, a deliberate attack by r3 which invested in some coins a 2months ago in order to dump them now and shake the faith of the community, or just some scared investors reading the NYT rag doesn't ultimately matter ... I'm picking up the carnage along with others and we are moving forward.