Looks like Matt Carullo is "ending maintenance" for the relay network

[Joseph Woolfridge]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766190.msg13511800#msg13511800

perfect timing for an idea like subchains or toomims blocktorrent

edit: whoops. Matt Corallo (spelling)

 

[sickpig]

maybe they have realized that RN is one of the force that runs against the Big Blocks = Miner Centralization narrative.

That said I see this as a good thing (tm), it will give the community the opportunuy of solving block propagation properly where it has to be fixed, namely the bitcoin p2p network.