Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on January 16, 2016, 09:27:50 PM

Hearn will be like a ticking time-bomb waiting to go off at R3C ... he's bitcoin's biggest asset right now. Can you imagine that arrogant little snipe not getting his way inside a corporate IT project, just waiting to slip the knife in or totally blow-up the project in a PR nightmare intended to destroy its credibility??

From his LinkedIn profile: "senior software engineer and tech lead at Google, where I worked for about 7.5 years on Maps/Earth, Gmail anti spam, signup abuse and login security"

From Gavin's profile: "Software Engineer - Silicon Graphics (SGI) 1988 1996 (8 years)"

By a strange coincidence, Gavin and Mike seem to be the only core devs with significant *professional* software development experience...

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on January 16, 2016, 10:11:42 PM

I'd like to know a lot more about how the NYTimes journalist, Nathaniel Popper who wrote the Digital Gold fiction, was able to time the release of his Hearn hit piece exactly for R3C's benefit at the washington hearing?

Why do you think that there was any particular interest for R3 to do so?

There is some poetic justice in the price tanking because of Mike's rage-quit and the block size war. There would have been no war and no rage-quit, if some segment of the community had not sided with Blockstream out of stupid greed -- because they imagined that Blockstream's plan would make the price of bitcoin go up, even though it meant giving up the very goal that motivated Satoshi to create it,and the only thing that justifies its existence.