A group of bitcoin true believers, led by foundation member Nick Spanos, is opening a Bitcoin Center on 40 Broad Street in Lower Manhattan. The goal is to have a location in which interested people can come to be educated and integrated into the Bitcoin economy.
I just found this thread, and I was excited about this when I read about it, but now to find out that it is using the "foundation" name to either sound legit or to be a local chapter disappoints me. As a New Yorker who lives near this area and would have loved to spend a couple days a week in their learning, teaching and just working on new bitcoin stuff. I would have also donated my skills, time and money. The foundation is a horrible organization that just wants to hire scammers to lead it's anti-openness of information, so to be allow myself to be affiliated with such corruption, I just can't. This is a real shame, and I am probably more upset about this. I really hope this place would consider not using the foundation name to promote, or even work alongside it.
Before you write this off, as a troll or something of that sort, remember I been here for over a year, been in bitcoins over 2yrs, I know what I am talking about, and I would have loved to help in anyway.
just keep in mind, some of the people who are acting as 'community leaders' are taking payola and bribes from various VC interests and the like, while pretending to be about the 'average bitcoin user'. You have to be super careful about what it is these people are promoting. The values are very subtle and hard to interpret.
Just because someone says, 'were opening up a bitcoin center' don't assume someone is doing it for YOUR good. One of the bitcoin meetup people actually was selling spots on the meetup for few hundred dollars, in other words you show up to the meeting and sit through an hour long advertisement that someone paid $250 for, but it's a secret. All these things are just turning into cheap promotions outlets and dull commercialized information. We have Gala Bitcoin events now? who are they kidding? Coindesk is clearly another commercialized mouthpiece.
The big boys want to own bitcoin, and this is generally how they do it.
