"who the heck is mike" and "isnt he just a programmer"
type replies are missing the point.. its not about replacing
a programmer or whether he is even wise or not...

...look at what he is writing about with Greg Maxwell,
the community, the blocks.  Its all verifiable.

And if you don't know who Mike Hearn is,
then you're basically clueless...he's the
guy who wrote XT along with Gavin to
try to help raise the blocksize when
core refused to.