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legendary
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April 08, 2013, 07:58:58 PM
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And you worry about authority? Yes, board members decide how the donations are spent. If you don't like that, all you can do is to be a part of changing it. But you can't do that from the outside.

Actually there are two other options.

One: don't donate.  Then you don't have to worry about how "your" money is being spent.

Two: Create your own organization.  Then you get to choose where your organization's money is spent.
legendary
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April 08, 2013, 07:57:07 PM
#4
If you like the idea of a monopolistic elite at the top, please add your comments also.
As long as they don't make any changes that I disagree with, I don't really care if a few people who know each other want to give themselves a fancy name and try to get others to donate money to their cause.

You are welcome to join together with a few of your own friends and create the "Bitcoin Institute" if you like.  You can create your own bitcoininstitute.org web page and fork your own copy of the reference client in git.  You can put out your own updates to the software and see if you can get donations to support the development work you are doing.

If changes are made that I disagree with, I'll probably find others with my point of view and do the same.

Fancy names don't give power to people.  People give power to people.
donator
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Merit: 1048
I outlived my lifetime membership:)
April 08, 2013, 07:55:12 PM
#3
This sounds childish. The foundation has zero authority. Zero. As in none. The foundation exists to get money from lots of people and give it to few people so they can make Bitcoin better. It's rather simple.

Supporting the foundation is supporting Bitcoin, not some authority. If you are like nearly everyone on this forum, you either never contributed code to Bitcoin or you were never paid for whatever it is you have done to advance Bitcoin. Consequently, very few people have dedicated their careers to the Bitcoin protocol Smiley We can't keep hoping that the important work on Bitcoin keeps getting done for free (or quickly...during someone else's nights, weekends, and vacations). 

And you worry about authority? Yes, board members decide how the donations are spent. If you don't like that, all you can do is to be a part of changing it. But you can't do that from the outside.
legendary
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Merit: 1001
April 08, 2013, 07:11:16 PM
#2
lol, I was thinking the exact same thing about 5 minutes ago: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoin-foundations-conflict-of-interest-170864
newbie
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Merit: 250
April 08, 2013, 07:04:29 PM
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