seeing as how the OP is just interested in social drama distractions.
hearn worked for google.. and it was google that sold certain apps to 3lettr agencies
guess who else worked for google.. pieter wuille (Mr. segwit)
This might look to have some connection and deeper cause but honesty I don't believe in conspiracy theories. It's true that such theories are something that follow Bitcoin from the very beginning but to my opinion they are only excuse for some things that can't be explained or justified on any other way, especialy those bad ones.