Topic: How can the Bitcoin Foundation best help Bitcoin? From New Exec Director (Read 1999 times)
April 17, 2015, 12:43:53 PM
Congratulations Bruce, glad to see a respectable name take the position.
April 17, 2015, 12:25:06 PM
Thank you everyone for the suggestions.
I'll be working on providing more information in the coming weeks.
I'll be working on providing more information in the coming weeks.
April 16, 2015, 10:35:08 AM
Besides the beaten to death consensus #1 gripe about the Bitcoin Foundation, Transparency, we need to get Bitcoin out there to the masses.
Promotion.
Make infographics and web flyers continuosly like this one. Make it easy to read so the common man gets the message fast.
Marketing and Advertising.
Need more Bitcoin Bowls and things of the like. Put a QR code on like an MMA fighter or advertise in lower level sporting events to start. Put Bitcoin's name all over an eSports or Action sports event. Keep advertising!
Strategic Partnerships.
Partner with companies that make sense. Partner Bitcoin Foundation with social media channels, like Linked In or Pinterest.
Charities.
Connect with United Way, Red Cross, Wounded Warrior or the like. Have Charity fundraisers in Bitcoin.
There's so many ways the Bitcoin Foundation can do good for Bitcoin and it's community, hopefully the new leadership will take heed.
Promotion.
Make infographics and web flyers continuosly like this one. Make it easy to read so the common man gets the message fast.
Marketing and Advertising.
Need more Bitcoin Bowls and things of the like. Put a QR code on like an MMA fighter or advertise in lower level sporting events to start. Put Bitcoin's name all over an eSports or Action sports event. Keep advertising!
Strategic Partnerships.
Partner with companies that make sense. Partner Bitcoin Foundation with social media channels, like Linked In or Pinterest.
Charities.
Connect with United Way, Red Cross, Wounded Warrior or the like. Have Charity fundraisers in Bitcoin.
There's so many ways the Bitcoin Foundation can do good for Bitcoin and it's community, hopefully the new leadership will take heed.
"There's so many ways the Bitcoin Foundation can do good for Bitcoin and it's community" and one of those ways is sponsoring those initiatives that also support the coint, technology, and community. Here is the currency PICISI sponsor list:
www.ArmisGame.com / The Einsteinium News / Crypto Cloud Hosting / Bitcoin PR Buzz / Crypto Database / Einsteinium (EMC2) / Metal Coin / HYPER (HYPER)
Hobonickels (HBN) / Energy Coin (ENRG) / Artsry Coin / GSM Coin (GSM) / Sativacoin (STV) / Magi Coin (XMG) / HTML5 (HTML5) / Coin2 (Coin2) / Aricoin (ARI)
Hobonickels (HBN) / Energy Coin (ENRG) / Artsry Coin / GSM Coin (GSM) / Sativacoin (STV) / Magi Coin (XMG) / HTML5 (HTML5) / Coin2 (Coin2) / Aricoin (ARI)
It would be really nice to see the Bitcoin Foundation included on our sponsor list.
April 16, 2015, 10:11:43 AM
Besides the beaten to death consensus #1 gripe about the Bitcoin Foundation, Transparency, we need to get Bitcoin out there to the masses.
Promotion.
Make infographics and web flyers continuosly like this one. Make it easy to read so the common man gets the message fast.
Marketing and Advertising.
Need more Bitcoin Bowls and things of the like. Put a QR code on like an MMA fighter or advertise in lower level sporting events to start. Put Bitcoin's name all over an eSports or Action sports event. Keep advertising!
Strategic Partnerships.
Partner with companies that make sense. Partner Bitcoin Foundation with social media channels, like Linked In or Pinterest.
Charities.
Connect with United Way, Red Cross, Wounded Warrior or the like. Have Charity fundraisers in Bitcoin.
There's so many ways the Bitcoin Foundation can do good for Bitcoin and it's community, hopefully the new leadership will take heed.
Promotion.
Make infographics and web flyers continuosly like this one. Make it easy to read so the common man gets the message fast.
Marketing and Advertising.
Need more Bitcoin Bowls and things of the like. Put a QR code on like an MMA fighter or advertise in lower level sporting events to start. Put Bitcoin's name all over an eSports or Action sports event. Keep advertising!
Strategic Partnerships.
Partner with companies that make sense. Partner Bitcoin Foundation with social media channels, like Linked In or Pinterest.
Charities.
Connect with United Way, Red Cross, Wounded Warrior or the like. Have Charity fundraisers in Bitcoin.
There's so many ways the Bitcoin Foundation can do good for Bitcoin and it's community, hopefully the new leadership will take heed.
April 16, 2015, 09:56:00 AM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
I would like to see an archive of meeting minutes and corresponding dates. Written transcripts are great. Having them coupled with audio transcripts is also great when possible. Basically, if any concrete and significant decisions are made, I would like to see the discussions precluding whatever action is taken.
April 15, 2015, 02:19:22 PM
Secure enough funding for the developers and maybe work towards having a larger international reach and presence.
More funding into marketing would be important as well, to make bitcoin go mainstream and make it more popular for the masses. 
April 15, 2015, 02:16:51 PM
Secure enough funding for the developers and maybe work towards having a larger international reach and presence.
April 15, 2015, 01:16:09 PM
Can you comment on this:
Source: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1284-the-truth-about-the-bitcoin-foundation/
Source: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1284-the-truth-about-the-bitcoin-foundation/
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When I joined on my first Board meeting, Jim Harper and myself immediately put forward a vote to have the board meeting recorded. We followed Robert’s rules of orders, and everyone else basically shut us down and failed to follow procedures. There were “more urgent” things to discuss (as you will see later, the urgent pattern was an excuse to just continue on their course and shut us up). It was critical for us to vote on a plan that would save the Foundation. When I mentioned that such a critical vote is all the more reason to make sure the whole meeting gets recorded, I was ignored. The Bitcoin Foundation hates transparency. If they would have been transparent then everyone would know there is no money left. Something I think the members have a right to know, wouldn’t you think? Members have a right to know that the current board failed to tell them the truth, and that their way of running the organization resulted in it going bankrupt. But instead of taking responsibility, they want to find the next executive director, that will come up with another magic plan. Ironically, being transparent from the start might have prevented this whole thing to begin with.
Everyone has the right to know the truth:
- The Foundation has almost no money left, and just fired 90% of its people. Some will stay on as volunteers.
- Core dev can no longer be funded by it, and Patrick Murck is trying to re-create a new Foundation just for core dev, because the current name is tarnished. Do not fall for this.
- The current Executive Director (Patrick Murck), will be gone in 2 weeks, and they are trying to find the next person to blame everything on.
- Jim Harper was threatened for doing a press release which was (barely) critical of the Foundation after he got elected. The Foundation tries to make sure we hide the truth by subtly threatening us on a regular basis.
- If I get asked to leave the Foundation for telling the truth, so be it. The truth is being told.
Everyone has the right to know the truth:
- The Foundation has almost no money left, and just fired 90% of its people. Some will stay on as volunteers.
- Core dev can no longer be funded by it, and Patrick Murck is trying to re-create a new Foundation just for core dev, because the current name is tarnished. Do not fall for this.
- The current Executive Director (Patrick Murck), will be gone in 2 weeks, and they are trying to find the next person to blame everything on.
- Jim Harper was threatened for doing a press release which was (barely) critical of the Foundation after he got elected. The Foundation tries to make sure we hide the truth by subtly threatening us on a regular basis.
- If I get asked to leave the Foundation for telling the truth, so be it. The truth is being told.
April 15, 2015, 12:35:53 PM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Do more AMA's on reddit or do more meetups world wide, try to engage with the bitcoin and crypto currency community. Built bridges not walls, you have build confidence to the bitcoin community to make bitcoin grow. A connective, open and focused community is the key to build a successful foundation. Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
April 15, 2015, 12:30:40 PM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Your board determines how to define the word "transparency" and how it is treated within the org, to that extent you owe your board transparency and your board owes its members transparency.
By extension, and as a matter of expected norm (which is why you are here) the CC community also has come to expect a degree of transparency of you, the board, and the btc foundation even though 99.99999999% of the bitcoin owners are not members of the bitcoin foundation. Take the defacto CC universe leadership opportunity to lead the industry in the way it should go. see my first post to this thread.
April 15, 2015, 12:25:59 PM
Disband your organisation and stop taking other peoples' money.
Not sure what money they have "taken"? I GAVE them money. April 15, 2015, 12:23:52 PM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
yep, I imagine it is a big one. there is obviously a lot of skepticism towards the foundation at this point. this has nothing to do with you, naturally, but it is there, so rebuilding the reputation of the foundation is critical.
I think that something has to be done in terms of the transparency of the backgrounds of the members. Too many previous members found themselves on the wrong side of the law it seems. My recommendation there is a strict ethics policy for members, which should be open to review by anyone. what that policy would be would of course be subject to debate. what personal information members would have to disclose would also be subject to debate. The penalty for breach is clear: they're out. end of story. Clean house and keep it clean. Also some system of prerequisites if it does not already exist. No felons, no-one with a history of financial criminality of any sort.
The other factor is conflict of interest of members. A concern of a lot of folks out there I think is that, as with any centralized 'authority', the opportunity and the temptation is there to manipulate things for personal financial gain. Disclosures on investments, interests etc of members in the bitcoin ecosystem and the conventional financial system would be critical, as would be a stiff penalty for omitting any information as outlined as mandatory to submit. This would include past history of interests, workplaces, associations etc., not only where they are now, but where they've been.
this is obviously loose and somewhat off the cuff but the jist is repairing the image and getting people in there that are clean, are not doing this for their own enrichment, and making sure it stays that way to the greatest extent possible.
thanks for the outreach.
April 15, 2015, 11:58:03 AM
Disband your organisation and stop taking other peoples' money.
April 15, 2015, 11:51:05 AM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Agree, more transparency and more communication with the bitcoin community would help to build a confidence between bitcoin community and the bitcoin foundation. Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
April 15, 2015, 11:33:50 AM
Transparency is the number one most common request --
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
Please let me know specifics about what things we can do to be more transparent
April 15, 2015, 04:21:47 AM
1. Create clusters of Bitcoin ecosystems. This woudl include a place you can buy and spend Bitcoins. Holy grail really of all of this. There is not much more to Bitcoin than enabling people access to Bitcoin and then giving them places to spend it.
2. I'm not sure how to market this, but it would be wise to propogate the idea that Bitcoins cannot be printed at will like Fiat currency, and that it equals in many ways financial freedom to the end user (the sting in the tail is more responsibility on the end user, but not much more).
3. Bring Bitcoin to the unbanked. I live in South Africa - and I feel there is a great need for it throughout Africa. This includes the runaway printing of money/currencies that several African countries experience, along with a greater visibility for corruption should Africa decide to use the blockchain. It has been demonstrated that M-Pesa works extremely well - Bitcoin as far as my understanding goes is quite close in function to this. The people here are not afraid to use phones and a new currency I believe.
I am open to assisting in Africa should the need arise. I am the author of CoinATMRadar iOS app and own the first Bitcoin ATM in Africa.
2. I'm not sure how to market this, but it would be wise to propogate the idea that Bitcoins cannot be printed at will like Fiat currency, and that it equals in many ways financial freedom to the end user (the sting in the tail is more responsibility on the end user, but not much more).
3. Bring Bitcoin to the unbanked. I live in South Africa - and I feel there is a great need for it throughout Africa. This includes the runaway printing of money/currencies that several African countries experience, along with a greater visibility for corruption should Africa decide to use the blockchain. It has been demonstrated that M-Pesa works extremely well - Bitcoin as far as my understanding goes is quite close in function to this. The people here are not afraid to use phones and a new currency I believe.
I am open to assisting in Africa should the need arise. I am the author of CoinATMRadar iOS app and own the first Bitcoin ATM in Africa.
April 15, 2015, 03:24:27 AM
One of the first things we did was apply to the foundation for representation here, to allow for growth and adoption with the foundation's support, never did get feedback but we still feel having a representative office or a partnership with the foundation here to provide insight is highly important.
Expand the reach and do so with a focus on Africa and you will garner real relationships and build that trust. We have been approached by high profile people in the digital abd banking space showing keen interest in Bitcoin but knowing very very little of it as discussions continued. So again, educate!
Expand the reach and do so with a focus on Africa and you will garner real relationships and build that trust. We have been approached by high profile people in the digital abd banking space showing keen interest in Bitcoin but knowing very very little of it as discussions continued. So again, educate!
April 15, 2015, 12:42:48 AM
The most important thing, should be "transparency" .... This whole "cloak n dagger" thing, turns people against the foundation and it's goals.
I am glad the focus will also be decentralization ..... "tick"
The funding of the Core Dev's salaries are the biggest concerns... {Let them code, and leave the marketting to experts}
The foundation should be represented by global membership ....{ Bitcoin is global, and not just US based }
I am glad the focus will also be decentralization ..... "tick"
The funding of the Core Dev's salaries are the biggest concerns... {Let them code, and leave the marketting to experts}
The foundation should be represented by global membership ....{ Bitcoin is global, and not just US based }
April 15, 2015, 12:17:53 AM
I think it would be nice to see the following:
1) More transparency insofar as how Foundation funds are being spent.
2) More focus on General Education type programs for the not so technically inclined boys and girls.
3) And oh yeah, did I mention more focus on Education? (get into the schools, educate them while they are young)
Widespread acceptance of bitcoin or it's like is going to take sometime. Hopefully I'll get to see it in my lifetime but I have a feeling the battle between the fiat-established mega crops and the freedom loving crypto enthusiasts is going to take decades to ultimately play out. Regardless, sharing the pure decentralized p2p nature of bitcoin with the youth is really where the long term success for bitcoin lays imho.
1) More transparency insofar as how Foundation funds are being spent.
2) More focus on General Education type programs for the not so technically inclined boys and girls.
3) And oh yeah, did I mention more focus on Education? (get into the schools, educate them while they are young)
Widespread acceptance of bitcoin or it's like is going to take sometime. Hopefully I'll get to see it in my lifetime but I have a feeling the battle between the fiat-established mega crops and the freedom loving crypto enthusiasts is going to take decades to ultimately play out. Regardless, sharing the pure decentralized p2p nature of bitcoin with the youth is really where the long term success for bitcoin lays imho.
April 14, 2015, 11:48:10 PM
I'd love to hear constructive thoughts that we can use to make plans going forward.
Thank you for asking. I know you won't like all the suggestions, but even asking for them in a public forum takes courage.
My suggestions include:
- Have the Foundation (and whatever additional resources it can assemble) encourage the pre-installation of one selected Bitcoin wallet on as many new smart-phones as possible, through agreements with phone manufacturers, operating system providers, value-added retailers, or software suite publishers.
- Have the Foundation (and whatever additional resources it can assemble) encourage Android game developers to build in Bitcoin payment options for game add-ons. Make it easy for them. Give them an incentive.
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