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Title: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: BitCoinDream on January 16, 2016, 07:23:49 PM I was reading http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/business/dealbook/the-bitcoin-believer-who-gave-up.html, where Hearn has been quoted saying...
"I want to be in a professional environment again where people are grounded in some sort of business reality." So, he left an industry having unprofessionals like Barry Silbert, Tim Draper, Richard Branson to work for this element... http://anony.ws/i/2016/01/16/r3cv.png Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: ivanst776 on January 16, 2016, 07:36:58 PM I feel petty too but everyone has the freedom to leave, i don't know which other coin is more professional than bitcoin.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: gentlemand on January 16, 2016, 07:45:45 PM He may be twit, but I find it hard to deny that the folks in development, not the services surrounding it, seem barely aware of a world beyond their bunkers that''s using it.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Pente on January 16, 2016, 07:48:56 PM I don't feel any pity for him, just disgust.
He doesn't understand the mathematics of emergence from chaos. Bitcoin will eventually fix itself. I have as much faith in Bitcoin as I do in mathematics. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: mOgliE on January 16, 2016, 07:58:27 PM I feel petty too but everyone has the freedom to leave, i don't know which other coin is more professional than bitcoin. I don't know if I should feel pitty. You can't know if he's not deep in some affairs. He might have been bought to provoke this gigantisc lowering trend! Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: BTCBinary on January 16, 2016, 08:28:17 PM I feel petty too but everyone has the freedom to leave, i don't know which other coin is more professional than bitcoin. I'm affraid you are losing an important person for bitcoin. But I also feel he is right, either Bitcoin surpasses the current adoption levels fast or it will become obsolete, surpassed by another better coin. I can see ethereum as the new bitcoin. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Cryptogames on January 16, 2016, 09:21:46 PM It's a hit to the industry reputation. The best case scenario - the price will recover after some time and sun will shine.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Buffer Overflow on January 16, 2016, 09:50:18 PM I guess there's a time when we all need to move onto different things in our lives.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Etoiliste on January 16, 2016, 09:50:29 PM after what all bitcoin went through i don't think it's gonna fail as Mike sad he has the freedom to say what he won't or do but he only wants to drop bitcoin prices so he could buy and sell it again when bitcoin rise up again
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: SamusNi on January 16, 2016, 10:25:09 PM https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1329377
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: astrocity1981 on January 16, 2016, 11:31:31 PM Don't feel pity for Mike Hearns thank him he just got you a discount for your next btc purchase. Buy now before price goes up.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: unamis76 on January 16, 2016, 11:46:12 PM I too feel a bit sorry for Mike Hearn after reading his write up on the current state of affairs. He is quite right and on the spot on most of his post and one can clearly see he wanted to change something and leave a dent on Bitcoin for the better and that this talk and all of the disregard for a block size increase made him tired.
I think he did well on going away, sad to see he didn't have much of a chance. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: MicroGuy on January 16, 2016, 11:56:15 PM I too feel a bit sorry for Mike Hearn after reading his write up on the current state of affairs. He is quite right and on the spot on most of his post and one can clearly see he wanted to change something and leave a dent on Bitcoin for the better and that this talk and all of the disregard for a block size increase made him tired. I think he did well on going away, sad to see he didn't have much of a chance. Have you just popped out from under a rock? Hearn wanted to subvert an entire Country by checkpointing blocks! Sinister plan of subversion >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9goUDBAR0 Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: unamis76 on January 17, 2016, 12:04:15 AM I too feel a bit sorry for Mike Hearn after reading his write up on the current state of affairs. He is quite right and on the spot on most of his post and one can clearly see he wanted to change something and leave a dent on Bitcoin for the better and that this talk and all of the disregard for a block size increase made him tired. I think he did well on going away, sad to see he didn't have much of a chance. Have you just popped out from under a rock? Hearn wanted to subvert an entire Country by checkpointing blocks! Sinister plan of subversion >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9goUDBAR0 He was definitely out of tune with that one, but I do think that motivating block size discussion was more relevant than some of the crap he put out after starting the fire. It's not easy to be in a team, trying to push a change you truly believe in and you are sure that will be a good contribution and being constantly thrown out and dragged down. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: manselr on January 17, 2016, 02:00:20 AM Why would you feel pitty for a sellout? He isn't dumb, he knows what he's doing. He is butthurt at the fact his XT altcoin didn't made the cut and left, all of his words sound like a bitter man and his FUD NYC article was the nail in the coffin.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: marcus_of_augustus on January 17, 2016, 03:16:33 AM he is pitiful but your sympathies would be wasted.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: foxbitcoin on January 17, 2016, 10:10:19 AM Bitcoin is moving forward. Its price gradually recovers back from previous low. Hearn' attempt to crash it has failed. Never mind. Check here http://coinjournal.net/scaling-bitcoin-austin-hill-blip/ Bitcoin will get its blocksize increased eventually. No matter in what way! Hearn has really bad attitude with his previous job.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: robelneo on January 17, 2016, 11:34:35 AM He should have left quietly now because of the negative effects he has done on the community,everybody are against here in the community ,bitcoin is now on the rebound at $370-$380 hopefully we will back on the $400 plus trading in the couple of months I am still excited to be on the bitcoin community despite of what happen ..
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Bitware on January 17, 2016, 11:50:35 AM No pity for Hearn. This was a well-planned and strategic attack on Bitcoin by the international banks and financiers, and I believe that Hearn is one of their minions.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: cjmoles on January 17, 2016, 12:40:54 PM I just wonder if Bitcoin will be able to compete with whatever the R3 group is spending that 9 billion USD in research and development on. They seem to be assembling quite a bit of talent and money over there....Doesn't that group have quite a bit of power too? I just hope Bitcoin will be ready when the "REAL" fud starts rolling....Now they've scabbed Hearn, a core developer too? Help! Why shouldn't I be worried about what they're doing over there?
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Slunt on January 17, 2016, 12:56:31 PM I too feel a bit sorry for Mike Hearn after reading his write up on the current state of affairs. He is quite right and on the spot on most of his post and one can clearly see he wanted to change something and leave a dent on Bitcoin for the better and that this talk and all of the disregard for a block size increase made him tired. I think he did well on going away, sad to see he didn't have much of a chance. He might be right on a few things but he was wrong and spreaded a lot of fud on other things and all because he acted like a baby just because he didn't get his own specific way. Things need to change with bitcoin but just because they're not happening as fast as he would like or in his way doesn't mean to say he should just give up. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: avatar_kiyoshi on January 17, 2016, 02:14:21 PM after what all bitcoin went through i don't think it's gonna fail as Mike sad he has the freedom to say what he won't or do but he only wants to drop bitcoin prices so he could buy and sell it again when bitcoin rise up again Bitcoin fail only through bad-mouthing, that's Mike purpose, to drop a price, because he's don't have enough coin to dump the price. Feel pity to him is wasted your time. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: RocketSingh on January 19, 2016, 07:35:47 PM Interestingly, Mike has posted a small followup...
https://medium.com/@octskyward/a-small-followup-aa399a83acbb Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: vlom on January 19, 2016, 09:05:51 PM Interestingly, Mike has posted a small followup... https://medium.com/@octskyward/a-small-followup-aa399a83acbb i read both articles. the followup and The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment. what he is writing there really makes me worry about bitcoin. especially the part about the power of the big miners. https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.p468en99x Quote Once upon a time, Bitcoin had the killer advantage of low and even zero fees, but it’s now common to be asked to pay more to miners than a credit card would charge. Why has the capacity limit not been raised? Because the block chain is controlled by Chinese miners, just two of whom control more than 50% of the hash power. At a recent conference over 95% of hashing power was controlled by a handful of guys sitting on a single stage. The miners are not allowing the block chain to grow. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVhkEhtUAAAl0LH.jpg if this really is true and will be the future. than i can totally understand that he left. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: allthingsbtc on January 19, 2016, 10:08:33 PM In the end, we must all choose our own paths. I wouldn't be surprised if Mike finds his way back to bitcoin in the future...
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: crazywack on January 19, 2016, 10:15:12 PM The Chinese miners Hearn is talking about wont allow Bitcoin to grow in HEARN's way, that's all. I don't think they are against a size limit increase if it makes sence and Hearn's did not.
He showed his true colors by be bought by the R3 team. Money talks and everyone has a price. Not to concerned with him leaving. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: maku on January 19, 2016, 10:26:35 PM I feel pity that Haern is so immature and whiny person. If he don't like bitcoin and the community then why in the first place he was part of the developing team?
He thought that every changes he propose will be accepted without questioning and he will be bitcoin emperor or something? And when it is different story he got angry, really? Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: watashi-kokoto on January 20, 2016, 12:36:31 PM I feel pity that Haern is so immature and whiny person. If he don't like bitcoin and the community then why in the first place he was part of the developing team? He thought that every changes he propose will be accepted without questioning and he will be bitcoin emperor or something? And when it is different story he got angry, really? What a shame that we lost such a talented person Haern. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: chek2fire on January 21, 2016, 01:38:14 AM what a happy day that one guy like hearn left forever
https://medium.com/@bramcohen/whiny-ragequitting-cab164b1e88#.kv2mdjztz Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: chennan on January 21, 2016, 01:45:15 AM I don't feel any pity for him, just disgust. He doesn't understand the mathematics of emergence from chaos. Bitcoin will eventually fix itself. I have as much faith in Bitcoin as I do in mathematics. While I don't really have that much of an opinion now about the situation with Hearn, because I can see it both ways; I see a problem with your ideology that Bitcoin will just eventually "fix itself". You can't leave a code that has obviously been giving devs, miners, and users trouble stagnant... you just can't. You have to fix it; that's just like saying that, "Oh, the foundation in my house has cracks, has termites, etc; but that's ok, because I believe my house will fix itself eventually. I believe in my house as much as I do with engineering." Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Kakmakr on January 21, 2016, 06:49:51 AM If he wants to work in a corporate environment with bosses telling him what to do, it is his choice. He worked at Google before and I was quite surprised at that statement. I would much rather work in a unstructured environment where innovation are not hampered by masters telling you what they want you to do.
If I have to pity him, it would be for burning the bridges with this community, in the way he did. The legacy he left behind here are full of deceit and lies and he will be remembered for that and not the other contributions he has made. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Luqman on January 21, 2016, 08:57:19 AM I feel no pity for him, I just feel disgust with him. What actually happen with bitcoin is well-planned to attack bitcoin stability.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: valiz on January 21, 2016, 09:39:25 AM He talked at a local conference organized by a local variant of 3 letter agency.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Betwrong on January 21, 2016, 09:53:09 AM I don't feel any pity for him, just disgust. He doesn't understand the mathematics of emergence from chaos. Bitcoin will eventually fix itself. I have as much faith in Bitcoin as I do in mathematics. I agree with this. No person, whatever mistakes he/she makes, can change the rules of mathematics. One plus one will be equal to two regardless of anyone's actions. As we can see Bitcoin is going up again btw. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: YoonYeonghwa on January 21, 2016, 09:59:50 AM I guess that it wasn't completely his fault that Bitcoin dropped in price so much. Maybe I misread the situation.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: bitlancr on January 21, 2016, 10:17:26 AM I don't really feel anything for him. Things change, people change, the way they are thinking and viewing things in life and business.
It never stays the same, people progress and I believe he is one of those people that wants to move on because he doesn't believe in bitcoin anymore and I think that's okay. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: gentlemand on January 21, 2016, 05:48:50 PM I agree with this. No person, whatever mistakes he/she makes, can change the rules of mathematics. One plus one will be equal to two regardless of anyone's actions. As we can see Bitcoin is going up again btw. Humans use it. Humans have agendas. Humans can change code. The idea that btc will 'fix itself' is laughable. It can easily be stunted, stagnated or sent off in a fatal direction by a powerful minority. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: bhodson on January 21, 2016, 06:33:06 PM Mike caused hundreds of thousands of people to see a drop in the combined value of their assets of around a billion dollars. He tried to ruin years and years of work done by thousands of bitcoin professionals. Tried to damage a technology almost as important as the internet.
Nice guy. I'm sure he will be happy with his new friends. He'll need them as I guess he just lost every professional friend he ever had. He sure lost all of my respect and caused me a few sleepless nights. Thanks Mike Enjoy what you made for yourself Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Rupert Murdoch on May 13, 2016, 05:23:36 PM Now Mike & R3CV has started to make sense to me. They are seeking 200m USD in funding - http://bitcoinist.net/r3-seeks-200-million-in-funding/
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: sockpuppet1 on May 13, 2016, 05:35:20 PM He doesn't understand the mathematics of emergence from chaos. Bitcoin will eventually fix itself. I have as much faith in Bitcoin as I do in mathematics. Too bad you didn't learn that the universe is composed of partial orders and not a total order. Then you'd understand why every consensus system will become centralized and thus a defacto a fiat. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: calkob on May 13, 2016, 07:30:15 PM That is what you would expect from a revolutionary tech that is being developed by different people all over the world.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Junko on May 13, 2016, 08:54:55 PM I don't feel pity for Mike Hearn. I don't feel anything for Mike Hearn. I don't feel like I lost anything because of him. I have more important things to worry about.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Hazir on May 13, 2016, 08:59:58 PM I feel petty too but everyone has the freedom to leave, i don't know which other coin is more professional than bitcoin. Ethereum seems pretty solid from the technical point of view. But I feel Haern is a whiner, he doesn't know what he really wants and he had no patience to see how bitcoin could grow big. I think he would be good in corporate team of researchers with clear goals and deadlines. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Yakamoto on May 13, 2016, 09:08:13 PM I feel petty too but everyone has the freedom to leave, i don't know which other coin is more professional than bitcoin. Ethereum seems pretty solid from the technical point of view. But I feel Haern is a whiner, he don't know what he really wants and he had no patience to see how bitcoin could grow big. I think he would be good in corporate team of researchers with clear goals and deadlines. Mike Hearn may have left for legitimate reasons, but his whiny demeanour when he made the post about Bitcoin being dead kind of burned a lot of bridges for him. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: BitCoinDream on May 10, 2017, 06:24:16 PM Revisiting the old thread at euphoria moment. ;)
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: RoommateAgreement on May 11, 2017, 03:16:12 AM Revisiting the old thread at euphoria moment. ;) i was wondering the other day about which one of these "bitcoin obituaries" is going to be the first to come up now that price has gone up. and here we go, one of the better ones. i still remember the dip back in the time he said all that. boy that was a great day for me to buy cheap coins. so i think we owe him some gratitude :) Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: cpfreeplz on May 11, 2017, 03:26:57 AM I don't even know what hearn is up to these days. Is he with an altcoin or went to a bank or what? He was always odd to me anyway. No loss there.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: 7788bitcoin on May 11, 2017, 03:31:33 AM Revisiting the old thread at euphoria moment. ;) i was wondering the other day about which one of these "bitcoin obituaries" is going to be the first to come up now that price has gone up. and here we go, one of the better ones. i still remember the dip back in the time he said all that. boy that was a great day for me to buy cheap coins. so i think we owe him some gratitude :) We shouldn't feel pity for him. Who knows, he might still keep a few hundreds of coins for just in case?... He just need to quietly watch the price increase. As a bitcoiner (hope I am qualified), it's very difficult for me to ditch my coins, even if I do not agree with some other colleagues... Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Kakmakr on May 11, 2017, 07:09:32 AM Revisiting the old thread at euphoria moment. ;) i was wondering the other day about which one of these "bitcoin obituaries" is going to be the first to come up now that price has gone up. and here we go, one of the better ones. i still remember the dip back in the time he said all that. boy that was a great day for me to buy cheap coins. so i think we owe him some gratitude :) I think I should also thank him for the cheap coins I bought back then. His attempt to sabotage Bitcoin, failed miserably and it just put a little dent in the price for us to buy cheaper coins at the time. Luckily a lot of us saw through his actions and we stayed in the game and even invested more. Now we are laughing at all those stunts and filling our pockets with massive profits. ^LoL^ Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Ucy on May 11, 2017, 07:28:53 AM " I want to be in a professional environment again where people are grounded in some sort of business reality."
Very typical of luddites/conformists. Or he was probably paid to say those words. Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: BitCoinDream on June 11, 2018, 12:00:51 PM Blockchain Firm R3 Is Running Out of Money, Sources Say - http://fortune.com/2018/06/07/blockchain-firm-r3-is-running-out-of-money-sources-say/
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: freesia_pnp888 on June 11, 2018, 12:18:04 PM yup, but it's his choice, right. We hope to see him again, soon. Maybe
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: jennyhoang293 on July 06, 2018, 03:59:02 AM That is the personal view of each person. I have always believed in bitcoin Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: tanjilrifat on September 13, 2018, 02:24:36 PM He tried to ruin years and years of work done by thousands of bitcoin professionals.It never stays the same, people progress and I believe he is one of those people that wants to move on.
Title: Re: I feel pity for Mike Hearn Post by: Dmitry.Vastov on September 16, 2018, 01:45:18 PM I was reading http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/business/dealbook/the-bitcoin-believer-who-gave-up.html, where Hearn has been quoted saying... I don’t feel any pity or sympathy for Mike Hearn and I think he is also like other morons who consider bitcoin a scam or a fraud or a Ponzi scheme or a bubble that would burst soon and I think these people are totally foolish and they are somewhere lacking in understanding the fate and potential of bitcoin and that’s why they took that decision of leaving bitcoin industry and I am damm sure that they will surely regret in the future when the valuation will reach sky high and time will answer them all for their guilt."I want to be in a professional environment again where people are grounded in some sort of business reality." So, he left an industry having unprofessionals like Barry Silbert, Tim Draper, Richard Branson to work for this element... http://anony.ws/i/2016/01/16/r3cv.png |
