If you want to hand-wave away early unsavoury behaviour, fine. Shady business dealings? Why not? I'm not a judge or jury. You associate with you you associate with. I'd sooner this lot of neckbeards for company, myself. And the 10 or so other board members, the ones BMB had to tell you about, do you know why they left?
So many incorrect assumptions it's no wonder there is so much misunderstanding.
1) I'm not hand waiving away past bad behavior. I'm shining a light on it - read the original post in this thread, I call out bad spending as ridiculous
2) agreed that who you associate with is important -- I'm not sure why the concept of someone being called in for a turnaround situation is hard to understand -- I do not and have no associated with the bad actors who made these bad decisions -- I've certainly never worked with any of them
3) 10 board members did not leave -- according to the article it was 10 regular members... out of 1500 (looking back at the old forum I doubt it was even that high) - yes, the reason they left appears to have been largely based on the same accusation in this thread that one board member was involved in a sex scandal -- this accusation was pretty much entirely debunked as unfounded -
Olivier Janssens
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 06:41 PM
I am also resigning as a lifetime member. If the bitcoin foundation is to be taken seriously, they need to immediately remove Brock Pierce from the board and save face. Brad, there are plenty more allegations than what you brought up. There are active lawsuits on corporate fraud and child porn. This is NOT the type of associations you want to have for Bitcoin, especially not with the MSM trying to pull every stunt in the book.
http://web.archive.o...rs-spanish-jail
-> The men fled to Spain where they were arrested by Spanish police who found "enormous amounts of child porn" at their villa.
Also, Spain is the only country in Europe where the legal age of consent is 13. Do you want to take the risk that this was a coincidence?
If you still have doubts, maybe read this: http://privatewww.es...lecomplaint.pdf
Also, the bitcoin community thinks this: http://www.reddit.co...in_foundations/
I will even make a proposal. It seems I should have joined as a platinum member a while ago to prevent something like this from happening. If you commit to remove Brock Pierce from the board, I pledge to join as Platinum member and pay the $100k USD fee, within the next 24 hours. I also urge you to update the bylaws to prevent people from joining if they are involved in ongoing lawsuits (of the nasty kind), or have ever been convicted for anything nasty. Or if their image is potentially damaging for the foundation.