Some bullet points of significance:
-- morituri13 Who are you, sir? How much (in specific numbers and the wallet number for corroboration) have you invested currently in BC and what are your credentials to not only be a member of the "Foundation" but one outspoken one at it? "Small business owner" (thank you for at least giving that bit out), as in having an eBay seller account, hardly qualifies. But why don't you dissipate all doubts and tell us all who you are and how invested in BC you are.
Hi barabbas. My short bio: I own over 400k BC. I once owned over 500k BC but I have given 80k BC to various projects, some to coinkite adoption, some to support the multipools black friday event etc. I own a small brick and mortar business (I don't know what the ebay comment is in regards to? Also I should note this business is not my primary source of income). At my real job, I am a project manager, and I have worked with the PR firm we eventually hired previously getting products into Hammacher Schlemmer but I am not by trade in PR or Marketing. Is this sufficient?
Thank you for the relative transparency -your real name would have been a great improvement there- in presenting your bio and, above all, for the link to your wallet. I see that you seem to be quite a whale on occasion, having "played' widely in the last 2 months with roughly 400,000 BC, besides your core holding of another 400k.
This sir could present a problem going forward: As you know, in the real world, so called "insiders" are legally barred from selling stock of their companies (or companies in which they have access to privileged information). I'm sure you clearly see the conflicting part that is the reason behind those laws... but here, we are in a sort of Wild West by which someone like you could greatly benefit from the information accessible to all "Foundation" members before it is made public, therefore, someone with your means, could easily increase his holding, by a double factor, on knowledge of some announcement likely to move the coin price, and proceed to dump it immediately upon the announcement. And still claim he has not touched his core position. Obvious conflict of interest, don't you think?
You volunteered (thank you) that you have given 80k coins to different causes including Conkite and that once you owned 500K BC, when we can all see than once you owned significantly more than 500K. Now, please try and distance yourself a bit and tell me if you don't see that similar activity to the one shown by your wallet moves, cannot possibly be legitimately maintained in the future if you are, indeed, a member of the proposed Foundation.
And, sir, let me ask you something else since you have shown intent on transparency: Is that the only wallet you own or control? Do family members or friends, or associates, have also wallets of BC? I'm sure you can see the very significant and clear conflict of interests that the sole idea of the Foundation presents... We all know that, at least by his own words, Soepkip own "about 100K BC" and that he only sells to "pay the rent". He's a member of the dev team, therefore privy to all shorts of inside info and I am pretty sure he chooses carefully his sales to benefit from that info. Not very ethical but unavoidable, I believe. But why add a whole huge scope of conflicting interests with 20 or more people with constant and direct access to info and projects from which they and their families, friends and associates can benefit, directly in detriment of the community at large?
Of course, the bulk of the community only cares about the price currently breaking up or breaking down from 30k, so they will push and push and push for whatever they perceive to the catalyst that propels the price up -to their selling point, today, within an hour if possible- not about the future of the coin. Why would the proposed members of the "Foundation" be different when they can and will in fact benefit much more from their privileged acces to information, while still keeping "core positions" to show when, in fact those positions, core as they might be, are worth mnuch, much less than the proceeds from their trading and that of their friends, family and associates?
On this alone I pledge that the idea of the "Foundation" should be a no go and that, if it is, it will provoke a massive run away from BC by both miners, traders and investors. In other words, the game would be blatantly rigged... actually, not in other words, in those exact words. So, once again appealing to saner minds, be sure any changes implemented will benefit -as opposed to destroy- this coin. The "Foundation" is one such change.