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Is this comment intended to imply that Mike is being opaque with his intentions? The quote seems pretty much in line with the OP.

• namecast 11y ago
  No, only that the article is being misleading in it's breathless clickbaitiness. The quote is absolutely in line with the article; actually including the quote in the article would have rendered the headline 'Bitcoin dev thinks blockchains for banks are way cooler, has thought so for months, and is reluctantly moving on'; that might be a fun article to read, but it's not frontpaging HN.
  • simoncion 11y ago
    > No, only that the article is being misleading in it's breathless clickbaitiness. If you read the entire article, you would not describe it as click-bait. Additionally, I agree with kevinwang's assessment that the statement by Hearn that you quoted is 100% in line with what Hearn is saying in his Medium article. The key quote is "...the system we actually use today with the block chain, isn't going to change the world at all due to the 1mb limit.". Hearn's Medium article is -actually- ~50-> ~75% about this 1MB limit. (Spoiler alert: it's not a limit of the Bitcoin protocol, but rather a political decision made by many of the Bitcoin Core developers.)
    • apozem 11y ago
      More proof that "clickbait" does not mean "a story that does not deliver on the headline's promise" but rather "something I don't like."