TL;DR I pledge to donate $100 every month to Bitcoin foundation.
I love Bitcoin… I had a goose bumps when read its description… I foresee this technology to lead us into the new type of world. Where everything is global… no borders… true freedom. And I’m sure that I am not the only one feeling like this. Read what Plato wrote recently - http://codepad.org/k0gRMK5W
I thought that everybody in the world will embrace this technology overnight… I still don’t understand how people can pass by and don’t spot this diamond lying on the ground... More of it, I am so pissed off about all these venture funding assholes who pour billions of dollars into stupid startups but pass by Bitcoin like it’s some leper on the street… I’m so angry that instead supporting it some dumb asses even criticizing it… I did not pay attention at Bitcoin at Jan 2011 when I was scanning my RSS because some idiot reporter told that it’s some stupid payment system “where you need to wait 10 minutes for you payment to go through”, just did not click the link.
I donated 20 BTC during my first day at forum to anyone who was writing interesting stuff about Bitcoin. I bought them at $1 BTC/USD through Paypal (old good days). Then I decided to create my satellite project (https://github.com/santacruz123/justbitcoin/wiki). I had big plans for it - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/215267/justbitcoin.jpg. Realized that it’s useless since it will be centralized and closed at some point by failing to play by the rules. After I was really into ripple pay idea. I thought it will spread usage of Bitcoin like a fire… After some time I figured out that this will not work because nobody will like this hassles with being in debt or taking debt back from his friends…
Each of us must do his part of the work for Bitcoin to succeed – use it here and there, let other people know about it, some people have money to buy shit loads of Bitcoins on the MtGOX casually supporting miners, shorting them on Bitcoinica to make Bitcoin cheaper so everybody can buy at $1 again, do various projects to grow Bitcoin economy and of course perfect the Bitcoin core.
People like Satoshi Nakamoto, FellowTraveler, Gavin Andresen, Ryan Fugger, Jeff Garzik did select to invest their free time to support their projects… instead of spending more time with family or getting kick ass corporate job and earn $100K+ salaries.
Why? They don’t do it for themselves… I think they do it for community. Community is more important for them than personal interests. “We” greater than “I”. It’s the main problem nowadays – everybody wants to score by himself. Communities does not give a flying fuck about people who care about them most. “United we stand divided we fall” is always forgotten.
We must unite if we want Bitcoin to succeed… Bitcoin is viable if people believe in it. If we will unite we all win and will be living in the new world. Otherwise it will be over pretty soon… lack of trust and Bitcoin will be “just another cool technology that did not get traction”.
I don’t ask you you to keep buying BTC and shouting if it will touch $1 BTC/USD we all gonna die…
But it is shit to see when people do debates if it is nice move by Gavin to open private ventures or not… “Oh my God, he needs money… how he can possibly do it, what a shame, most amoral deed I’ve ever seen”. It’s shit to see when Gavin is telling that “many things would be much easier if there was a non-profit organization like the Tor Project to pay core developers, testers, a PR person, pay for the Jenkins nightly build server, etc etc etc” and nobody pays any attention…
Unfortunately, nobody gives a fuck about us and we are alone – all these linux foundations just shred their shoulder and do not recognize us as a part of open source movement… Even https://www.eff.org nicely told us to get away because we are “embarrassing” their donators with our crypto currency…
We, early adopters, should take care of core development team, like parents take care of their children.
I pledge to donate $100 every month to Bitcoin foundation.
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