Bitcoin Foundation to repair relationship with community - page 5.

tatu

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Quote from: Envrin on November 02, 2014, 09:13:47 AM

Not to sound like a jerk, but who cares about the Bitcoin Foundation? Isn't the whole point of bitcoin so we don't have to deal with bureaucratic bullshit? In my eyes, they're 100% totally irrelevant, and just created themselves a bunch of good paying jobs.

Hell with it, I'm starting Bitcoin Foundation 2.0 -- who's in? If we play our cards right, we can all be making 7 figures within the next 12 months for not doing much except talking. Cool deal, eh?

Well we should care a bit because they could do either damage or good to bitcoin. The general public may also think they are the offical front or face of bitcoin when obviously they're not.

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Despite these half measures the true problem is they are trying to be the voice for a decentralized project with a centralized and hierarchical representation which is damaging in itself. The best thing they can do is fragment into multiple organizations not centrally managed and controlled by any one president.

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Not to sound like a jerk, but who cares about the Bitcoin Foundation? Isn't the whole point of bitcoin so we don't have to deal with bureaucratic bullshit? In my eyes, they're 100% totally irrelevant, and just created themselves a bunch of good paying jobs.

Hell with it, I'm starting Bitcoin Foundation 2.0 -- who's in? If we play our cards right, we can all be making 7 figures within the next 12 months for not doing much except talking. Cool deal, eh?

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We hear things before the mainstream news does and are infinitely more informed Wink

belk

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Lol.. that is just funny how reports/articles surface in this forum. Are they making things up again?

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I don't see how something like The Foundation could ever represent the rest of the community. Being centralised and with members who have business interests in bitcoin they're obviously going to become biased or corrupt.

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Quote from: bornil267645 on November 02, 2014, 06:09:12 AM

I don't see how they can improve it. They have done absolutely well to demoralize our community, let's see what they can do to solve it.

They'll implement new improvements in their transparency issue for starters.

And probably talk about the team, give a lot of background information on every member, and give their reasons for their conduct in the past year(s).

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I don't see how they can improve it. They have done absolutely well to demoralize our community, let's see what they can do to solve it.

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Yeah, I think it's a bit late for that given the shit they've been trying to pull on us, they should just do themselves a favour and disband the foundation, it isn't needed, people like Andreas and Amir have done more for the Bitcoin community than the Bitcoin Foundation ever did, hell I'll admit, even the winklevoss twins are doing more with their Bitcoin ETF even though I don't approve of ETF's one bit.

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It's about time!
All they did was ruin the Bitcoin decentralisaton image.

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After Jon Matonis' resignation, the new Executive Director, Patrick Murck, acknowledges the need to repair relationship between foundation and community.

He'll be doing AMA on Reddit on 5th November.

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-foundations-new-head-patrick-murck-outlines-future-plans/

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The Bitcoin Foundation's new executive director Patrick Murck has outlined his priorities for the organization's "new direction" and its relationship with stakeholders.

His statement follows yesterday's resignation of former executive director Jon Matonis both from the post and his position on foundation's board.

Notably, former general counsel Murck acknowledged a need to repair the foundation's relationship with the bitcoin community, even if that meant sometimes adopting unpopular or controversial positions on some issues, and taking risks with communication and transparency to demonstrate honest engagement.

He wrote:

"That means we may not always say exactly the right thing and we might not always be on message, but we will be authentic in how we interact with the community in the future and I hope that you all get to know the people who work hard to make the foundation go."

There will be an 'ask me anything' (AMA) session for the new executive director on Reddit on 5th November, at which the community is invited to join in with their own questions about the foundation's future role.

Murck stated his first priority is to "cut out distractions" to better serve the bitcoin cause, which means a sharp focus on standardization through the bitcoin core reference implementation and doing more to support those building the bitcoin infrastructure.

Additionally he promised to run the non-profit foundation more like a business – finding new ways to generate funding, rather than simply relying on membership dues and hopes of bitcoin price appreciation.

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