This is huge: Mike Hearn is quitting Bitcoin

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Yeah, seems like Mike Hearn has had enough and is cashing out- https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.ebe5b7arc

Posted on January 14, 2016 at 3:02 PM

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Cryptonaut

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Yup. Sucks that he is giving up already, oh well though. I guess his post will have to be added to Bitcoin Obituaries lol.

Didn't think I would end up saying this but looks like XT is going to fizzle and BIP101 is probably a no go...

Seems that everyone is regrouping under a new project, Bitcoin Classic: https://bitcoinclassic.com/ hard fork to 2MB right away, adaptive block size after that (I think - website doesn't actually say that right now). Gavin and Jeff Garzik are on the dev team, it and a whole bunch of others showing support including Coinbase, OKCoin, a bunch of miners etc. Can't wait to get this fork over with..

Posted on January 14, 2016 at 5:52 PM
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karmatron

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need an oracle to tell us when it's almost "over with" so we can buy in. :) I'm looking to this forum for intelligent nonnoob nonalarmist nonkneejerkin discussion.

Posted on January 15, 2016 at 12:49 AM
Last Edited: January 15, 2016 at 12:51 AM
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adam

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We recorded our News show on thursday and this was discussed as part of another topic,coming out on saturdays show. Long story short, Mike's claim is hard to support.

Posted on January 15, 2016 at 4:57 AM
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brighton36

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The story here is that Hearn tried to fork, and failed. His 'departure' was a defeat, and anyone who wasn't running XT should be gloating over their victory.

As for Bitcoin classic - this is a political party, just like XT was. If you're rooting for either 'team' you're probably being used.

Posted on January 15, 2016 at 7:39 AM
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BikerGSX

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Here is another way of putting it ^-^: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gAwT4E3s1U

Posted on January 16, 2016 at 2:27 PM
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