Golly, journeyofrivers is really going to hate me when he finds out I'm an Elected Official and a Cog in the System. Last night I voted to steal millions of dollars from taxpayers and give it to public (I know! Terrible!) schools.
(I'm only barely an elected official, one of 251 elected Amherst Town Meeting members. My punishment is long boring meetings late at night a couple times a year...)
Seriously, we probably agree on most things on a philosophical level. I just believe I'll get farther by taking "small steps to a much better world."
And I, on the other hand, just hope that you will not be corrupted by them, and will reform your ways and cut ties with them before they corrupt you too much. I doubt you can tell the CIA too much that they don't already know.... afterall... they can read all these messages.
Yeah, they will definately try something.
Even if Gavin won't accept money or power, they can still threaten to hurt his family or something.
But anyway, the source is still free/open so i don't see many ways in which they could hurt Bitcoin. Open source projects are not governed by the laws that the rest of this civilization is governed by. Open source is like an idea. It is virtually impossible to destroy (as long as there is at least one living person developing).