lolwut?
Was that just a declarative?
Yeah, Hearn ragequit out of frustration with stasis on this issue, first by trying the XT gambit, then bailing when that didn't work. Everybody wants to just shit on him now, but I've appreciated his input, in code and ideas. You don't have to agree with him to show a little respect for the time and effort he put into the project.
lolwut?
BFL Customer?
What response do you want? I asked an honest question - "What had Mike Hearn contributed?" - The answer is clearly NOTHING to anyone who bothers to look. And yet you post this nonsense? What is my response supposed to be?
You say that bitcoinj is nothing because it's not in the holy Core repository, fine. Because of this, in your mind, he has contributed nothing to Bitcoin, fine. I disagree.
Of the rare occasion I've actually talked to someone in depth IRL about bitcoin... Shooting some mBTC across the android wallet, using bitcoinj, has been the main trigger of an "ah ha" moment, where they start to actually be interested (or feign interest so well as to be undetectable
