My main motivation is for Bitcoin to succeed long-term (for ideological reasons). I have less potential conflict of interest than most people here, since I am self-employed.
Things I don't particularly care about:
- The value of bitcointalk.org, /r/Bitcoin, and bitcoin.org
- The short & medium-term market value of BTC
- My personal fame/power/reputation/wealth
- What random people who I don't know or respect think about what I'm doing
Things I do care about:
- Bitcoin's long-term decentralization
- The long-term ability of Bitcoin to provide anonymity
- The long-term price/usefulness of BTC
- Rational technical/economic arguments
That's really disappointing to hear you don't care about immediate/near future success of Bitcoin. I'm personally in the same boat as you on one thing- I think long term success should be one of the biggest goals for the Bitcoin community to achieve. However, I don't see how you could expect such a feet to take place without success on a smaller scale prior to whatever your version of long term success is. For me, mass adoption is the ultimate goal, and that can't take place until Bitcoin continues to improve. The roadtrip isn't point A to point B, we have a lot of landmarks to hit before this long term success can be achieved, and it needs to take place in the near future.
Anyways, it's clear you have a concrete set of views, but there are a lot of people out there with views that oppose you. Even if you run the major Bitcoin community outlets, I personally don't believe you should have the audacity to fully censor certain points of view from your forums.
He has a rough history (wasn't he just uncovered to be laundering money through some donation?)
No.