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Topic: Concerns about the Bitcoin Foundation (email inside) - page 3. (Read 3034 times)

donator
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Merit: 1047
I outlived my lifetime membership:)
Weird idea ya got there. Your emailing the secretary will not get a reply. You need to ask (or become) a member to get items on the agenda. I would not support wasting time on the obvious and will not suggest it as an agenda item...your concerns are unrealistic. I don't want to set a precedent of having to reply to every wild accusation to appease people who aren't even paying to advance Bitcoin.

So I have to pay to get a reply?  Also, I don't like your tone.  You already sound like a government agent.

'Sorry, you mailed the wrong address, you should have known!'
'Since you behaved not according to our standards, I will not put your item on the agenda, you are wasting time'
'You aren't contributing to the system, so you have no right to reply'

It was actually my intention to donate, but you probably read over that part.  Before I donate somewhere, I want to know what their principles are.
And trust me, I was about to donate a fairly large amount.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Edit: Oh yeah, like a real politician, you actually avoided answering my questions.

Let me be direct: your concerns amount to hysterics. Nobody on the foundation wants to (or could) change the rules of Bitcoin.

I'm not interested in having hysterics in a foundation that tries to get real work (the kind of work worth paying for) accomplished. Please start your own foundation to pay for stuff. I suggest you use a name that sounds less like Foundation and more like "club" or "well-wishers." This way you'll find it easier to keep the feeble minded from thinking you are evil. Oh, don't charge more than $30 entrance fee and update your btc based fee each week if necessary to keep the fiat cost low (instead of once chabging it once a year...or forget using that whole Bitcoin thing for actually receiving payments, it's too unstable to be useful...please note this is sarcasm).
hero member
Activity: 763
Merit: 500
bitcoin is some kind of "majority" system. also, the goals of the bitcoin foundation are based on some kind of "majority" system. why should the entire group fix their behaviour of the next decades just to get some coins from you? why are you of such an importance?

… and that's without even really reading your "demands".

please don't join the foundation.
member
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Weird idea ya got there. Your emailing the secretary will not get a reply. You need to ask (or become) a member to get items on the agenda. I would not support wasting time on the obvious and will not suggest it as an agenda item...your concerns are unrealistic. I don't want to set a precedent of having to reply to every wild accusation to appease people who aren't even paying to advance Bitcoin.

So I have to pay to get a reply?  Also, I don't like your tone.  You already sound like a government agent.

'Sorry, you mailed the wrong address, you should have known!'
'Since you behaved not according to our standards, I will not put your item on the agenda, you are wasting time'
'You aren't contributing to the system, so you have no right to reply'

It was actually my intention to donate, but you probably read over that part.  Before I donate somewhere, I want to know what their principles are.
And trust me, I was about to donate a fairly large amount.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Edit: Oh yeah, like a real politician, you actually avoided answering my questions.
donator
Activity: 1464
Merit: 1047
I outlived my lifetime membership:)
Weird idea ya got there. Your emailing the secretary will not get a reply. You need to ask (or become) a member to get items on the agenda. I would not support wasting time on the obvious and will not suggest it as an agenda item...your concerns are unrealistic. I don't want to set a precedent of having to reply to every wild accusation to appease people who aren't even paying to advance Bitcoin.
member
Activity: 102
Merit: 10
I've sent this email to the Bitcoin Foundation 2 weeks ago.  For me it is clear they need to state their intensions.
The fact that they didn't reply, is not a good sign.  Worst case we should start our own counter-foundation.  Noone can claim bitcoin anyway.
We will be the Bitcoin User Group. Email me if you want to help found it, and agree with the original bitcoin principles: [email protected]

We will stand for:

- Respecting the 21 million limit
- Decentralisation, no intervention of any kind
- Not changing the crypto (we keep SHA256)

-> Basically protecting the libertarian and anarcho-capitalistic principles, and not allow for any government intervention in the protocol.

Hi Lindsay,

Before I donate, I would like to know the foundation's stance on bitcoin:

Do you commit to never increasing the limit beyond 21 million coins?
Also, do you commit to never accepting changes that will include payments to be approved by government before being transacted?

In other words, are you ready and willing to protect the core essences of bitcoin, including its libertarian aspects as Satoshi intended?

Thanks for your reply.  It would also help if you could put your key intentions on your site if they are correct.

Regards
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