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Quote from: HorseRider on September 27, 2012, 07:27:08 AM

Thank you. This is a great milestone for us.

+1

Gavin, great work. In the interest of transparency, you might want to add in your OP that one of the uses of donations is to pay for your full time salary as a bitcoin developer. That in itself deserves credit and goes to show the dedication of the board members so far.

+1 to Mark for the first platinum membership too.

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Wat

I will lol if silk road becomes a platinum member.

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Quote from: elux on September 27, 2012, 07:44:33 AM

Signed up. Confirmation email incoming?

Same here. I guess they do it manually.

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How comes the bitcoin logo is nowheere to be seen on that webiste, you know the BTC

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This is exactly what Bitcoin needs - a legitimate corporate entity backed by members around the world to defend against the onslaught of propaganda that will inevitably come Bitcoins way. Signed up for life membership!

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lovebitcoins.org just got put out of business

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I agree this is a good idea, and have sent in my membership because over the last couple of years I've come to respect several of the main parties involved in this project.

That being said, how are you guys planning on not becoming the headquarters for Bitcoin? In other words, what kind of arms length systems are in place to distance yourselves (the foundation) from the thing itself (Bitcoin)?

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Quote from: elux on September 27, 2012, 07:44:33 AM

Signed up. Confirmation email incoming?

I just suggested it to them. Maybe others might do the same?

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Bravo Gavin.
It was worth waiting the 24 of september

This organization complements nicely a rather loose community of developers.

Although I hate to quote myself I speculated on this forum a month ago "Some kind of W3C-like organization to manage BIPs, including Google's sponsorship ?"
I was wrong about Google unless they join as platinum member and I could have thought of the linux foundation as a model more relevant than W3C at this stage of the bitcoin development.

You can count on my support as an individual member already.

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Signed up. Confirmation email incoming?

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Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on September 27, 2012, 07:12:19 AM

Quote from: bitcats on September 27, 2012, 05:27:47 AM

Is this project going in the direction of a bitcoin centralization?

I can't avoid seeing it from this angle too.

First of all, you shouldn't have chosen such name. You're not the foundation of Bitcoin. The foundation of Bitcoin is Satoshi's code, not this organization. At least in other "foundations", the organization was created by the founders of the respective project, AFAIK.

Plus, there's no "E-mail Foundation" and look how popular the technology got, without such centralization.

Anyways... maybe I'm being over paranoid.

By curiosity, is at least a single member of the board not a statist?
Jon Matonis seems to be quite liberty-oriented, but I don't know until which point.

If satoshi = Gavin then the point is moot Cheesy

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Thank you. This is a great milestone for us.

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This is great.

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Great news, and a big thank you to all board members for their continued effort in Bitcoin universe.

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VIS ET LIBERTAS

Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on September 27, 2012, 07:12:19 AM

Quote from: bitcats on September 27, 2012, 05:27:47 AM

Is this project going in the direction of a bitcoin centralization?

I can't avoid seeing it from this angle too.

First of all, you shouldn't have chosen such name. You're not the foundation of Bitcoin. The foundation of Bitcoin is Satoshi's code, not this organization. At least in other "foundations", the organization was created by the founders of the respective project, AFAIK.
Plus, there's no "E-mail Foundation" and look how popular the technology got, without such centralization.

+1

Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on September 27, 2012, 07:17:29 AM

Quote from: BkkCoins on September 27, 2012, 07:09:40 AM

How is this foundation going to respond to government pressure to change the code, to regulate and control who uses Bitcoin and how? It seems like we're going from what was a decentralized system to one where the developers are directly under the influence of the major dues payers and will be, whatever they say now not withstanding, under direct government control.

I share your feelings.

+1

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Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on September 27, 2012, 07:12:19 AM

Quote from: bitcats on September 27, 2012, 05:27:47 AM

Is this project going in the direction of a bitcoin centralization?

I can't avoid seeing it from this angle too.

First of all, you shouldn't have chosen such name. You're not the foundation of Bitcoin. The foundation of Bitcoin is Satoshi's code, not this organization. At least in other "foundations", the organization was created by the founders of the respective project, AFAIK.

That's just wordplay. The code is the basis and this is an organization. Added to that as you can see the Bitcoin Foundation will concern itself with much more than developing the software.

Quote from: EhVedadoOAnonimato on September 27, 2012, 07:12:19 AM

Plus, there's no "E-mail Foundation" and look how popular the technology got, without such centralization.

That is not a valid analogy. Bitcoin is much more than just a protocol.
If it would contain just the mechanism to establish a cryptocurrency and the creation of a blockchain would be left to individual users that could be the case - it's not. Bitcoin is no protocol it's already contains the concrete implementation, that's why we are here.

One good anology would be wikimedia foundation, they are developing the mediawiki software and at the same time are responsible for wikipedia.

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+1 Joined as well, much needed.

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Quote from: BkkCoins on September 27, 2012, 07:09:40 AM

How is this foundation going to respond to government pressure to change the code, to regulate and control who uses Bitcoin and how? It seems like we're going from what was a decentralized system to one where the developers are directly under the influence of the major dues payers and will be, whatever they say now not withstanding, under direct government control.

I share your feelings.

Quote from: BkkCoins on September 27, 2012, 07:09:40 AM

Bitcoin is inherently different than Linux and one thing that brought many users together in using Bitcoin was that it had no central nexxus for control.

Agreed.

I understand it remains open source and we may always fork etc. But still. If this organization starts centralizing development, it may represent some danger.
I'd appreciate if core developers didn't get involved with it, but it's the "lead developer" himself who creates it... Sad

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Joined. This is a step in the right direction. Thanks, Gavin.

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Quote from: bitcats on September 27, 2012, 05:27:47 AM

Is this project going in the direction of a bitcoin centralization?

I can't avoid seeing it from this angle too.

First of all, you shouldn't have chosen such name. You're not the foundation of Bitcoin. The foundation of Bitcoin is Satoshi's code, not this organization. At least in other "foundations", the organization was created by the founders of the respective project, AFAIK.

Plus, there's no "E-mail Foundation" and look how popular the technology got, without such centralization.

Anyways... maybe I'm being over paranoid.

By curiosity, is at least a single member of the board not a statist?
Jon Matonis seems to be quite liberty-oriented, but I don't know until which point.

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