Theymos 4th Rejection for Bitcointalk Banner Ad
"Still no. I'd probably only be comfortable with BiblePay if a lot more info, news, and third-party reviews of your practices come out. As-is, I'm not particularly convinced by your responses to my previous concerns (though admittedly I don't have time to spend more than a few minutes looking at it), and I see a lot of red flags. If I was convinced that BiblePay was like "Litecoin with a bible theme and a donation thing", then I'd probably allow it."
Reference:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.47033776Bitcointalk Investigation:
"Topic: BiblePay (BBP) - Are BiblePay's Charity Donations Legitimate? (Read 246 times)"
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5030640====
Arghhh, what else can we do?
I can try to pay Theymos for his time?
Hire an auditor? Hire a private investigator? LOL
Videotape ourselves calling Compassion?
If Compassion mentioned us publically that would be cool
(I dont know how to show proof of an email, and also my screenshot of the email was edited to take out Lukes last name)
I can poke Jim on twitter, its on my TODO list
But I need an article first, that explains how much we have donated to them, anyone want to create it?
Should we start some sort of bounty campaign?
If you can prove our donations were illegitimate we will pay X Bitcoin.
If you videotape yourself calling compassion, we will pay X BBP.
Thank you for working on the report Rob, I wont give up!
That's OK, we'll convince everyone provably, eventually, because the Truth will stand. We have the effects of 329 real orphans that we helped for most of 2018, their pictures, their expense records, their inbound letters on a recurring basis, etc. You can't falsify hundreds of inbound childrens letters written to BiblePay and kept in our SAN.
Regarding the next step, imho personally I would be more convinced by a signed end of year statement from Compassion than a CPA audit. Im not against a CPA audit, but our current budget doesnt allow for spending a couple grand on something that could be falsified by some firm. The other reason I like the end of year statement is it consolidates the total to a point in time - meaning that we have integrity from day zero up to that date - meaning that our expenses were provable for a very large time span. In addition, an end of year statement can be confirmed by allowing one to call the 800 # and confirm the authenticity of the statement. One from compassion would take care of something like 90% of our expenses, and that would add imo a lot of additional credibility.
So Ill go ahead and submit a request for compassion to create an end of year statement - maybe for all of 2018, or for 9-9 depending on how their calendar years work, Ill check into that now. Thanks for trying.
Regarding the pandering comment, no lets not be swayed by that. We are an upstanding untarnished organization with 100% accuracy. I named the 'exec theymos' report out of respect and honor for Theymos's interrogation, not to supplicate his approval. The name of the report goes down in history to honor him and I think eventually he will realize how an honest and persistent organization succeeds. Of course if he asks to not be associated with us, we can change it
. It was meant to be a compliment to his additional stringent requirements.