The well funded and organized conspiracy to try to destroy Bitcoin is obvious. What remains a 'theory' is who is funding them, my bet is on the Chinese government wanting to turn bitcoin into China-coin. And they call bitcoin mockingly as Core-coin, and spreading all the misinfo we hear about 'evil' Blockstream. They will fail, honey badger don't care.

This recent post is an obvious evidence sample:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5ryj1u/chinese_miners_getting_ready_for_war/?st=iyqvub5z&sh=6f96e490