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 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'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.

I guess there's a time when we all need to move onto different things in our lives.

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 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.

he is pitiful but your sympathies would be wasted.

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 ..

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?