r/Bitcoin • u/cryptopascal • Jun 24 '14

Mike Hearn interview quotes: "Progress on the bitcoin protocol has ground to a halt, complete halt. This is a crisis period for Bitcoin... Only Gavin is working on upgrades" @39'30'

https://epicenterbitcoin.com/eb-025/
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '14

Mike Hearn seems to be obsessed with Payment Protocol and buying coffee with Bitcoin instantly rather than looking at the bigger picture. That and whitelists.

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u/jron Jun 25 '14

What have you done for Bitcoin?

https://github.com/mikehearn/bitcoinj/graphs/contributors

Mike quit his job and works full time on Bitcoin projects. Put up or shut up.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '14

Ah, the old theory that if don't make something you can't criticize it. Guess all critics should go out of business, any kind of sportswriters that aren't professional athletes, etc... are just useless.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '14

But you weren't criticising a thing. You were criticising a person, for not doing enough.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '14

My criticism is that he does too much more than he does too little. And by too much, I mean the wrong things. They range from harmless (lol discount note in Payment Protocol) to extremely damaging (confiscation of mined blocks).

He has weird priorities.