Replace-By-Fee: A Counter Argument

[matthewh3]

Mike Hearn calls Bitcoin's block size debate a ‘civil war’ - http://bravenewcoin.com/news/mike-hearn-calls-bitcoins-block-size-debate-a-civil-war/

Prominent Bitcoin Developer (Mike Hearn) Declares the Digital Currency a Failure - http://fortune.com/2016/01/14/bitcoin-developer-quits/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE

Is the RBF update being rushed through by Mike Hearn his next move in the Bitcoin (core developer) civil war?  I don't personally see this as an update but it could well be an actual act of sabotage.  Or hasn't he just come out and called the Bitcoin experiment a failure and walked away from core development.  If so then his proposed update (act of sabotage) hopefully won't be implemented at the next bitcoin core update.

[ShayneBTC]

I'm not a Bitcoin developer, but I am a developer. Could someone who knows more than me about Bitcoin please have a look at this proposal of mine and tell me if it could possibly work or not?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3wtlvk/solving_zero_confirmation_transactions/

Thanks in advance.

[spiderbrain]

Is the RBF update being rushed through by Mike Hearn his next move in the Bitcoin (core developer) civil war?  I don't personally see this as an update but it could well be an actual act of sabotage.  Or hasn't he just come out and called the Bitcoin experiment a failure and walked away from core development.  If so then his proposed update (act of sabotage) hopefully won't be implemented at the next bitcoin core update.

Mike doesn't have core commit rights, here's mike talking about it.
https://medium.com/block-chain/on-block-sizes-e047bc9f830#.45j09pglp

If he did he would have to whine about things needing to be changed, he would change them.