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January 14, 2016 Plan99 (Mike Hearn)

Mike Hearn declares 'Bitcoin has failed' and sells all his coins

Mike Hearn ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Mike Hearn published The Resolution of the Bitcoin Experiment, declaring Bitcoin had failed due to governance breakdown and the block-size stalemate. He sold all his coins and left the project.

August 15, 2015 Wikipedia

Bitcoin XT launches the block-size war — Hearn and Andresen propose 8 MB blocks (August 2015)

Mike Hearn ↔ Gavin Andresen

Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen released Bitcoin XT 0.11A, a Bitcoin Core fork implementing BIP 101 — 8 MB blocks doubling every two years. The launch opened the public phase of the block-size war.