What is the Bitcoin foundation?
The more I read about the entities that are getting involved with Bitcoin the muddier my picture of Bitcoin gets.
You say Bitcoin is decentralized? It is not and will never be as long as there's someone pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Whether it's an entity within the network (a large pool), a shady wall-street investor or the big brother foundation...
Where is the long term plan posted? Where is the list of planned features? Where do I send my feature suggestions? Where is the open discussion?
Where are the miners in all of this? Are we just dumb, cheap labor?
So long as the strings are held by enough people, that is decentralization. Where they get tied into ropes are the problems. If you have a private key and a mining rig, you have an untangled string.
Most your questions have been adequately and repeatedly answered. If you can read code, even better than google, hop on github. Feature suggestion - pull request. Most people aren't in the group that can be useful there. Consequently the "Very Open Discussion".... most of which is more open than is useful, as incredible amounts of time are used by people-that-know-stuff explaining to people-that-don't-know-how-to-find-answers.
There is some utility to this VOD process at this stage of the project (which is still beta) because the "issue identifiers" (complainers) are still giving enough useful input to the "issue resolvers" (people that make things) to be of some valuable guidance.
And there are plenty of us around the edges that can talk to both. When you are at the point of identifying a novel issue that hasn't been addressed, you get tremendous acclaim and hatred.
The automatic and persistent KYC proposals are in that category. There is a problem, some solutions to that problem may make it worse, and so it will be hotly debated.
