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Bitcoin is larger, but the person that make the decisions for the bitcoin masses is behind it, so you think people will do there own research? No they will just accept it.

It is all about who controls the gateway into the world. What's your area of expertise? I'd like you to record a lecture

If it about who controls the gateway, well the largest exchange and the one of the most successful buy bitcoin website are key members in the foundation. The foundation has a choke hold on bitcoins. I know complaining does nothing, and I would start a bitcoin foundation but what is that going to do, your fighting an up hill battle, and if you succeed you still have no power cause of the lead developer will always be in the castle a top bitcoin hill.

If you want me to record lecture pm maybe we can talk about it.

Why can't other foundations, or anyone for that matter, hire developers? People keep thinking that Bitcoin is always going to have 1 developer in charge. If this takes off there will need to be several paid developers, possible more foundations around the world who collaborate.

Gavin's name is way too tied to the program. So right now it would be an up hill battle, for another foundation. Which if they don't control the protocol they will never have the power to over take the foundation. You said "if this takes off" well it is kinda taking off right now.

This is nowhere near taking off. If you have retailers all over start taking it the transaction rate will go up 100 or a thousand times or more. You are not going to have that whole system hinge on 1 person. You will have large numbers of paid developers and there will probably be foundations on different continents.

Your talking about a future in about 25-50yrs from now. That isn't anything we should worry about now.

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Quote from: charleshoskinson on April 27, 2013, 05:06:23 AM

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Bitcoin is larger, but the person that make the decisions for the bitcoin masses is behind it, so you think people will do there own research? No they will just accept it.

It is all about who controls the gateway into the world. What's your area of expertise? I'd like you to record a lecture

If it about who controls the gateway, well the largest exchange and the one of the most successful buy bitcoin website are key members in the foundation. The foundation has a choke hold on bitcoins. I know complaining does nothing, and I would start a bitcoin foundation but what is that going to do, your fighting an up hill battle, and if you succeed you still have no power cause of the lead developer will always be in the castle a top bitcoin hill.

If you want me to record lecture pm maybe we can talk about it.

Why can't other foundations, or anyone for that matter, hire developers? People keep thinking that Bitcoin is always going to have 1 developer in charge. If this takes off there will need to be several paid developers, possible more foundations around the world who collaborate.

Gavin's name is way too tied to the program. So right now it would be an up hill battle, for another foundation. Which if they don't control the protocol they will never have the power to over take the foundation. You said "if this takes off" well it is kinda taking off right now.

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Satoshi disapeared 'cause of all those people Foundation founders he could not trust.
He stopped communicating with Gavin Andersen after the traitor talked to the CIA.

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Away on an extended break

Please keep this on topic, gents.

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This is nowhere near taking off. If you have retailers all over start taking it the transaction rate will go up 100 or a thousand times or more. You are not going to have that whole system hinge on 1 person. You will have large numbers of paid developers and there will probably be foundations on different continents.

Amazon, Microsoft, Paypal, Google and Facebook. Until someone spends the time to seduce them into contributing devs the Foundation will be small. This- alongside my education project- should be the focus of the foundation. They would get dozens of seasoned professional programmers and powerful corporations who are financially tied to the success of Bitcoin. That's called a win win.

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What's wrong with them being incorporated?

There's nothing wrong with them being incorporated - it's the fact that they're incorporated as a business rather than a non-profit which some people find disturbing, especially given that they chose to style themselves as "Foundation" and that they claim to represent Bitcoin in general rather than specific Bitcoin interests.

You must have missed the part where they actually are a nonprofit. You probably also don't realize that pretty most other entities recognized as nonprofit by the IRS are also corporations.

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Quote from: Razick on April 26, 2013, 06:46:40 PM

What's wrong with them being incorporated?

There's nothing wrong with them being incorporated - it's the fact that they're incorporated as a business rather than a non-profit which some people find disturbing, especially given that they chose to style themselves as "Foundation" and that they claim to represent Bitcoin in general rather than specific Bitcoin interests.

People worry about a commercial entity whose management is dominated by those involved in Bitcoin commerce paying the lead developer (there are some people who believe the devs shouldn't be paid at all, nevermind by commercial interests). Rightly or wrongly, they believe that the "Bitcoin elite" will have undue influence over the development of the official client.

If they styled themselves the Bitcoin Chamber of Commerce, or the Bitcoin Financial Services Alliance, no-one would really give a shit. If they were an actual non-profit obligated to make their financial statements public, there'd also be far less concern.

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Quote from: 🏰 TradeFortress 🏰 on April 27, 2013, 04:38:42 AM

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Well there you have it, a United States corporation is trying to take over Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Foundation is not trying to take over anything.

They are not trying to take over anything because they already have.

Good point, they are at most just solidifying their positions.....until a superior coin comes along!!!!

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It's interesting that THE BITCOIN FOUNDATION, INC. conveniently and casually drop the "INC." designation at the bottom of their website at https://bitcoinfoundation.org/.

If they are trying to hide the fact that they are a United States Corporation, what else could they be hiding?

Here is the lawyer behind the formation of this corporation:
http://www.avvo.com/attorneys/patrick-murck-1805177.html

This "foundation" is one of the biggest scams in Bitcoin.

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Bitcoin is larger, but the person that make the decisions for the bitcoin masses is behind it, so you think people will do there own research? No they will just accept it.

It is all about who controls the gateway into the world. What's your area of expertise? I'd like you to record a lecture

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You do realized they will always be relevant they have a hold on bitcoin, we have to hope they get voted out and new members who can turn the foundation around and actually get things done will succeed. But I doubt Gavin, Charlie, and Mark will give up there powers, and have there employees vote them back in, or put figure heads into power. I really doubt a sub par educational system will bring them down.

This is like arguing over who will be head of the free software foundation. Bitcoin is much larger than a single foundation and they are not focusing on the only chokepoint to control it. I'm not worried at all. Whoever controls the gateway into bitcoin land (ie the knowledge required to use bitcoins) controls bitcoin land. I'm slowly bringing the community together behind this concept and if the BTC foundation wants to ignore it, then they will end up as an also ran.

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I really doubt a sub par educational system will bring them down.

You're free at any time to help us.

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Wait so they have the lead developer of bitcoin, the CEO of Mt Gox, CEO of bitinstant, some other heavy hitters of bitcoins and because they don't like your course (which is below sub par research) they will be irrelevant. I really doubt that, but believe what you want.

I love you too gweedo

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They are not trying to take over anything because they already have.

Sorry mate. I haven't thrown in the towel yet. If the foundation doesn't get behind my course, then they will become irrelevant

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Quote from: qwk on April 26, 2013, 05:50:49 AM

Quote from: Dunster on April 26, 2013, 05:36:59 AM

Well there you have it, a United States corporation is trying to take over Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Foundation is not trying to take over anything.

They are not trying to take over anything because they already have.

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The privacy policy is an important point. Thank you for mentioning it. Same with the tax status. Do you hade a back ground in this sort of thing? I think we could use someone who knows something about this. The foundation has a lot of work to do in addition to advancing Bitcoin. But bear in mind, the vast majority of the foundation membrrs are just like the members here...except we paid $30 (about 1/3 if what you would pay to join the Linux foundation).

I will put it on the agenda. Many thanks.

As long as bg is a member of the foundation, I will continue to stay. He's been one of my best friends here at bitcointalk and a great member of the community. To be honest, I don't think what the foundation has set out to do is easy. They are effectively herding cats on a global scale.

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Quote from: kjj on April 26, 2013, 10:05:41 PM

You must have missed the part where they actually are a nonprofit. You probably also don't realize that pretty most other entities recognized as nonprofit by the IRS are also corporations.

A non-profit, but not a charity, and I think a lot of people think of the two as synonymous— the tax advantage of their structure mostly exists to prevent double taxation on monies that would otherwise be spent directly by the members if the orginization didn't exist. I hadn't really paid much attention to (c)(6)'s previously, it's interesting to see that some have been under fire, and thats probably another argument for maintaining a good delineation between Bitcoin and Bitcoin Foundation: no one wants uncle sam arguing that Bitcoin Foundation is really the controlling corporation for Bitcoin— in independent business— operating under (c)(6) as a tax dodge.

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Quote from: repentance on April 26, 2013, 08:54:30 PM

Quote from: Razick on April 26, 2013, 06:46:40 PM

What's wrong with them being incorporated?

There's nothing wrong with them being incorporated - it's the fact that they're incorporated as a business rather than a non-profit which some people find disturbing, especially given that they chose to style themselves as "Foundation" and that they claim to represent Bitcoin in general rather than specific Bitcoin interests.

You must have missed the part where they actually are a nonprofit. You probably also don't realize that pretty most other entities recognized as nonprofit by the IRS are also corporations.

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Quote from: Razick on April 26, 2013, 06:46:40 PM

What's wrong with them being incorporated?

There's nothing wrong with them being incorporated - it's the fact that they're incorporated as a business rather than a non-profit which some people find disturbing, especially given that they chose to style themselves as "Foundation" and that they claim to represent Bitcoin in general rather than specific Bitcoin interests.

People worry about a commercial entity whose management is dominated by those involved in Bitcoin commerce paying the lead developer (there are some people who believe the devs shouldn't be paid at all, nevermind by commercial interests). Rightly or wrongly, they believe that the "Bitcoin elite" will have undue influence over the development of the official client.

If they styled themselves the Bitcoin Chamber of Commerce, or the Bitcoin Financial Services Alliance, no-one would really give a shit. If they were an actual non-profit obligated to make their financial statements public, there'd also be far less concern.

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