I feel sorry for all of you therefore I will do you all a favor by purchasing your worthless coins for $20 each.
Better get out quick, much FUD.
You have a deal!
For every BTC that I allow you to buy for $20, you also get to take 17 Paycoins for the "assured floor price" of $20 each.
Shall we arrange escrow?
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Is anything being done to start an "open source group" that replaces the Bitcoin Foundation?
No, I do not think. The dev who will work and maintain updated the bitcoin core client should to be considered as voluntaries and they should not receive any salary but only donation from the bitcoin community. This is how should it works... but all we know that it will never happen.