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Only people who really don't understand how bitcoin works are pushing for a hard-fork over a soft-fork.



https://medium.com/@octskyward/on-consensus-and-forks-c6a050...

Mike Hearn would disagree with you, and he knows a lot about how Bitcoin works.


The same Mike Hearn that referred to bitcoin as the failed experiment?

https://medium.com/@coolbearcjs/the-mike-hearn-experiment-ha...

The same Mike Hearn that recently announced the failure of his R3CEV venture to deliver a blockchain solution for banking?

https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/834152812405735425

The same Mike Hearn that tried and failed to push through a fork of the bitcoin network called Bitcoin XT that allowed for a personally controlled black-list?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-xt-fork-can-blacklist...

Yeah. That guy. He has an agenda, and it hasn't been aligned with bitcoin for quite some time.


Hearn is right. The wider world simply doesn't know how dysfunctional Bitcoin is, mostly because of the censorship taking place on the main communication channels. You will literally be banned from /r/bitcoin if you post a comment notifying other users that comments are being deleted.

The blacklist article is pure FUD, seemingly written with the sole intent of smearing Hearn.




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