He's just too butthurt that his XT project failed...as it should have.

I read the whole article. Two thoughts jump out at me.

First, maybe I'm oversimplifying it, but Mike Hearn got caught up in the American-centric banter about Core vs. XT, when it's really the Chinese who control Bitcoin. Nothing the American developers say or do matters unless miners adopt the changes. So Bitcoin is hostage to the miners, and unless you convince a handful of mining operators to use updated Bitcoin software, nothing is going to get fixed. That's really scary. The lack of ability to reach consensus will be Bitcoin's downfall. At this point, Satoshi himself might be the only one with enough influence to break the deadlock.

Second, it definitely looks like Bitcoin Core is, ironically, 'going corporate' (in fact let's just call it Bitcoin Core-porate). Both the refusal to raise the block size and the introduction of RBF point to the obvious: tiny transactions like buying a soda with Bitcoin are going to be off limits, and very soon. The little guy is getting kicked off the Bitcoin network, and only major operators like Coinbase, BitPay, and large banking institutions will be allowed to play on the block chain.

At least, the Bitcoin block chain.

HOLY SHIT. THIS IS THE PERFECT SETUP FOR DASH.

Anyone who wants a chunk of this coin supply better get a move on.

It's all going to the reserve market by stealth and the people trading Dash currency market have no clue what's round the corner since migration from currency to reserve does not manifest itself in price until a very late stage in the game.

For once we agree.

*looks outside; observes flying pigs*

Christ, the pressure is on to pull this off now!!

The banana skin will be that the crypto works and the drawer jams. Maybe quit worrying about software and get some WD-40.

Nice !

Does anyone have a ballpark figure of how many masternodes is the limit for current amount of coins? obviously the number of masternodes can't go up forever

Would anyone be interested in a budget proposal that is actually a non-binding resolution that Mike Hearn is a great guy and sends like 1 dash to a burn address or some donation address? It is another a cool thing we could use the budget system for.