Impossible Prediction Time:
Jim Harper who was just hired [along with Jamie Weiss] by the Bitcoin foundation is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute - the most powerful think tank in the US.
Of course, the Bitcoin board has stressed that these two are not on the board, they're just employees, advisers of sorts.
I don't buy that story for one second! 2 board seats are forced out and in under 30 days 2 high profile new hires? No.
People don't know that it [Cato] was started and is still funded by the Koch brothers. The brothers are worth $80 billion combined. David and Charles Koch are libertarians and a massive thorn in the side of big government and President Obama.
They are easily the biggest enemy of the state and would oppose any hint of a state takeover of BTC, which is what I think is happening with BTC.
If they saw, like I did, that bitcoin was being taken over by banks and the NSA they might have stepped in. These two brothers seem to fear no one, which in itself is remarkable given the new powers of the state.
So what does this mean?
It could mean we're gonna see a massive move by the foundation to refund $500 million in people's stolen money by Gox.
What do the Gox brothers get in return for their generosity?
2 Board seats, and to keep BTC out of the control of the banks, NSA and the fed. The NSA and big banks are gonna have to go to war to take any remaining seats! That will take too much time, time for plan B, Bitcoin's twin.
Oh, would you mind in a few months if total outsiders (like I said before) replace the 2 empty board seats left open by Shrem and Karpeles? After this new guy is instrumental in bringing in $500 million nobody will say a word. But this will prove another thing I said, the bitcoin foundation has centralized bitcoin and holds the same power as the federal reserve board, which is why banks and the US Govt wanted those seats.
Things are getting very interesting. Another reason the govt and banks need a plan B, iXcoin - a much easier takeover with all the benefits of BTC.
Nicely played, Koch brothers, but you totally missed plan B!
Well, look at this. It's only been 1 week since this crazy prediction and all of a sudden Gox just found 200,000 Bitcoins [like one finds a lost pair of socks]. What are the odds of that? People can't be stupid enough to believe this is actually a possibility, regardless of how stupid Karpeles is.
I said a week ago that the Koch Brothers were now in Bitcoin in a big way to fight off a government and bank takeover and they would refund the lost coins and/or refund the $500 million in return for the 2 vacant board seats.
Look for more refunds or miraculously found Bitcoins and within 3 months the 2 outsiders will get the board seats [precisely like I said] even though the BTC Board members have made it clear they're just advisers and will not be given the board seats.
I said then that the board lied when they said the 2 new DC new hires were mere advisers. They will give them the 2 board seats as I expected.
The NSA [and JP Morgan] will have to work really hard now to take any additional board seats away from BTC as the Koch Brothers are worth $80 Billion and are extremely powerful political enemies of President Obama, large governments [and democrats in general].
This may be another good reason for what I've been calling plan B: iXcoin. With each passing day, Banks and the govt love iXcoin more and more.