It's certainly no threat, what could we possibly be threatening with? The terms of our sale agreement were simple: You prepurchase software, we develop said software, you get said software - deal is done. No more, no less.
If people also want us to continue working + other people who will be in the foundation, then of course they have to pay for it. No one is going to work 5-10 hour days for anyone for free, that's borderline slavery. The reason we have to take this blunt tone is that a lot of people in crypto tend to actually treat the initiators of projects like slaves that they somehow inexplicably 'own' for all eternity.
Then why are you so hesitant to accept Bitcoins as donation? I can see that the foundation has its value but i cannot see the necessity to fund it strictly with IOTA.
We never said strictly with IOTA. But of course IOTA makes the most sense as then the funding increase in value in conjunction with the work performance. We have had this discussion at least 5 times and we have never ever said "no bitcoin", just that we prefer the IOTA as all members of the foundation will want to be paid in IOTA anyway.