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now this is beyond pathetic..

edit: brock pierce on a private island.. sleep tight Cheesy
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Admittedly I do not know who a lot about Bruce Fenton, I know he ran for election for the Bitcoin foundation, but I noticed something that is somewhat concerning.

I've been doing some digging into this website satoshiroundtable.org for fun. The whois information for it shows:

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Tech Name:Bruce Fenton
Tech Organization:AF
Tech Street: 167 Washington Street
Tech City:Norwell
Tech State/Province:Massachusetts
Tech Postal Code:02061
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.6173814907
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email:[email protected]

The WHOIS information for fdvt has the same address:

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Tech Organization: FDVT
Tech Street: 167 Washington Street
Tech City: Norwell
Tech State/Province: MA
Tech Postal Code: 02061
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.7819824911
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext.:
Tech Email: [email protected]

Now for the weird/conspiracy bit, check out the website http://fdvt.com

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FDVT was founded in 1985.  We provide solutions to help understand changes in our world.  Specifically we provide IT consulting, Internet consulting, social media consulting, security and economic advisory consulting.

Customers of FDVT include:

US Army
US Navy
US Coast Guard
US Air Force
US Postal Service
US Postal Inspector Service
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
IRS - Internal Revue Service
DEA - Drug Enforcement Agency
Veterans Administration
City Of New York and New York Police Department (NYPD)
Eastern Bank
TCF Bank
Bank of America

Why does this company FDVT has some connection to the Satoshi Roundtable? This is concerning.

EDIT: apparently the connection between Bruce Fenton and FDVT has been known for sometime. Here is a reply he made on reddit when asked about it:

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My investment firm, Atlantic Financial, bought the company Fleetwood Video some years back and changed the name to FDVT or Fleetwood Digital Technology Corp.- I believe 2004 or so but I am not positive -- certainly quite a while back. A family of a deceased business owner approached me and asked me to buy the business for what seemed to be a cheap rate. I figured it had enough revenue to cover the purchase cost and some goodwill from being so old (founded in 1985) and the customer list and registration to do business with the government.

The company served the clients mentioned - mainly selling blank video tapes for security cameras. That's pretty much what the business did. One of the Atlantic Financial employees had plans to make it into more of a broad consulting company but we didn't.

The company continued those services for a couple years as the contracts wound down and never worked in those areas again. We considered pursuing some government business but didn't. The company never asked for or got any new government contracts and the one part time employee who was on board with the aquisition moved on -- the internal employee working on it moved on. The small amount of revenue that came in covered most of the costs of the purchase.

I had thought that the business might have had value since it is a service disabled veteran business and I'm a disabled vet -- but I never used that certification or pursued those lines of business. It's really not my cup of tea. I had also considered using the business as a vehicle to help out a freind who is a martial arts trainer who had trained military and police - so he could run contracts through the business since it was registered in all the databases needed to do business with the government but it was too much effort relative to the reward.

We scrapped all the inventory, delisted all contracts with all government agencies and turned the shell of what was left into basically a catch all for web development and domain names we are afflicted with. The company took on a couple small web consulting clients in later years.

At the time -- 2004 or so, I was not as adamantly against the government as I am now. I had some interest in some types of government contracts -- I didn't pursue them but some of the work such as USAID efforts in Pakistan and security work interested me. I didn't pursue it, it doesn't interest me now and I don't do any government work now. Even the tiny bit of work that this company, which was owned by my company did was not something I was personally active in or profited from.

I am only giving so much information for full disclosure. That client list is pretty similar for Google, Microsoft, Dell etc Etc. The government buys a lot of stuff. I don't like it, I don't prefer working woth government and I wish they were smaller.
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I wonder how you guys missed Tim Draper ?


http://satoshiroundtable.org


Confirmed attendees include:

Steve Beauregard, CEO, GoCoin
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
Michael Cao, CEO Zoom Hash
Dave Carlson, Mega Big Power
Nic Cary, CEO Blockchain
Reeve Collins, CEO, Tether
Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin Economist
Anthony DiIorio, Bitcoin Decentral, CrytpoKit, Ethereum
Bruce Fenton, Atlantic Financial / Bitcoin Association
Paige Freeman, Co-Founder, Women in Bitcoin
David Johnston, DApps Fund, Mastercoin, Factom
Charlie Lee, Coinbase/ Creator LiteCoin
Vinny Lingham, CEO Gyft
Marshall Long, CEO Final Hash
Trace Mayer, Author, investor, early adopter
Ira Miller, CEO, Coinapult
Patrick Murck, Executive Director, Bitcoin Foundation
Joel Monegro, Union Square Ventures
Brock Pierce, Crypto Currency Partners
Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO BitPesa
Matthew Roszak, Tally Capital
Marco Santori, Pillsbury Winthrop
Craig Sellars, CTO Mastercoin
Paul Snow, Texas Bitcoin Alliance and Factom
Nick Sullivan, CEO ChangeTip
Peter Todd, Core Developer
Roger Ver, Memory Dealers
Erik Voorhees, Coinapult
And many others …


Sorry it is full.  If you want to be placed on the wait list in the case of a cancelation you can send an email to [email protected]
legendary
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Ιntergalactic Conciliator
I hope then next conference to be in a Greek Island. Is more funny and beauty form every other island in the world Tongue
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What a load of bollocks  Roll Eyes
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The list has been updated since this, some new names added and some moved off.

Not sure how you define people as "scammers" the list is a well respected group of people who speak at events often and includes early adopters, venture capitalists, CEOs of venture backed companies and developers.
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Lux e tenebris

Steve Beauregard, CEO, GoCoin
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum
Michael Cao, CEO Zoom Hash
Dave Carlson, Mega Big Power
Nic Cary, CEO Blockchain
Reeve Collins, CEO, Tether
Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin Economist
Anthony DiIorio, Bitcoin Decentral, CrytpoKit, Ethereum
Bruce Fenton, Atlantic Financial / Bitcoin Association
Paige Freeman, Co-Founder, Women in Bitcoin
David Johnston, DApps Fund, Mastercoin, Factom
Charlie Lee, Coinbase/ Creator LiteCoin
Vinny Lingham, CEO Gyft
Marshall Long, CEO Final Hash
Trace Mayer, Author, investor, early adopter
Ira Miller, CEO, Coinapult
Patrick Murck, Executive Director, Bitcoin Foundation
Joel Monegro, Union Square Ventures
Brock Pierce, Crypto Currency Partners
Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO BitPesa
Matthew Roszak, Tally Capital
Marco Santori, Pillsbury Winthrop
Craig Sellars, CTO Mastercoin
Paul Snow, Texas Bitcoin Alliance and Factom
Nick Sullivan, CEO ChangeTip
Peter Todd, Core Developer
Roger Ver, Memory Dealers
Erik Voorhees, Coinapult
And many others …


Sorry it is full.  If you want to be placed on the wait list in the case of a cancelation you can send an email to [email protected]

Delighted it's full. Who on earth would want to met all the scammers and deluded libertards in this list? Unless you plan to expose them?
Seriously, well over half of them have already stolen people's bitcoins, will do so or will get hacked because dumbness prevails.
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We haven't put the location mainly because we don't want people to go to the trouble of flying there only to find that there are no on-site registrations.
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Satoshi Round Table, the Bilderberg group of Bitcoin.

Oh no
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Satoshi Round Table, the Bilderberg group of Bitcoin.
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I bet Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees can get the conspiracy theories going. Will you check for hidden microphones?  Wink


Erik and I joked about hiring an actor to dress as an Army officer and post it on Reddit as "NSA briefs Bitcoin group...photo leaked".

Smiley
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Will you check for hidden microphones?  Wink

Attendees should be discouraged from connecting to that open network named "Hotel Guest" and leaving unencrypted laptops in their hotel rooms  Cool
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So how will the discussions that come out of this meeting be shared with the community?

There's not much for all of us to gain from this otherwise, since it's already booked and we can't get any tickets.

FOR example....many CEOs will not criticise regulators in a public event because they fear reprisals from the regulators.   Another example is that some CEOs fear to attack known scams in public because they don't want attacks from scammers or to be associated with them (even as a critic) in the newspaper.   There are other examples....but these are a couple of reasons why some types of interaction can be beneficial if not wide open publicly with press etc.

I bet Roger Ver and Erik Voorhees can get the conspiracy theories going. Will you check for hidden microphones?  Wink
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So how will the discussions that come out of this meeting be shared with the community?

There's not much for all of us to gain from this otherwise, since it's already booked and we can't get any tickets.

It's like a private dinner but we will make every effort to make it as transparent as possible.

One purpose of posting this was so that people coiod ask for a wait list invite if there is a cancelation.

Another is just to let people know it exists.

Some video and notes will be taken but it will be a private event not public, so the difference is that people will be encouraged to speak more freely.   FOR example....many CEOs will not criticise regulators in a public event because they fear reprisals from the regulators.   Another example is that some CEOs fear to attack known scams in public because they don't want attacks from scammers or to be associated with them (even as a critic) in the newspaper.   There are other examples....but these are a couple of reasons why some types of interaction can be beneficial if not wide open publicly with press etc.
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Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin Economist

Nooo, there's Bitcoin Economists now? save us!

The Paul Krugman of Bitcoin?

The guy is branding himself as an investor type.

From tuurdemeester.com:
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Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin Economist

Nooo, there's Bitcoin Economists now? save us!

The Paul Krugman of Bitcoin?
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Tuur Demeester, Bitcoin Economist

Nooo, there's Bitcoin Economists now? save us!
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Loose lips sink sigs!
So how will the discussions that come out of this meeting be shared with the community?

There's not much for all of us to gain from this otherwise, since it's already booked and we can't get any tickets.
legendary
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!!! RiSe aBovE ThE StoRm !!!
Is that the Dominican Republic or the location is secret and you just post a generic Carribean location photo?

They don't seem to reveal it I think... But it's a good thing and looks like a get-together sort of...
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I didn't realize how genius the Satoshi Roundtable logo was before I saw the Shiba Inu.


Thank you!

And note the "Block" "chain" surrounding it...faces covered, 010101000. Etc.

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