This makes me soooo happy!
I feel relieved as well. The behavior of Gavin Andresen (and Mike "Ragequit" Hearn) lead to a truly toxic atmosphere in development and the community as a whole. Now the Core devs will hopefully be able to work with a little less distraction - well they did an amazing job in the last months work even under the toxic atmosphere!
The last year or so, Gavin almost exclusively excelled at pushing media campaigns to instill fear of a looming network collapse if his outright silly big-block scheme would not be approved at once. This was further attempt by him to seize power over Bitcoin development and to enact a privacy-hostile pro-government agenda (the first attempt was The Bitcoin Foundation). Luckily this plan failed, too.
Hopefully Gavin leaves Bitcoin entirely and never returns. Persons who meet with the CIA and are willing to sign NDAs are the exact opposite of what Bitcoin stands for.
ya.ya.yo!
