We, the bitcoin users, don't need the bitcoin foundation to represent us. We have no faces. If any user, US government included, has any problem using Bitcoin, we can help him in the bitcointalk forum. But nearly all the questions a government could have about Bitcoin are very well explained in satoshi's paper and the source code. The only words the foundation had to say in that meeting: read the paper and the code as all of we did, it's all explained there.
agreed,
even though they said they did not represent bitcoin, just the name 'the bitcoin foundation' itself kind of sounds like they do.
if you want a foundation representing bitcoin, why pay to get in? and why require name and address?
and great, make bitcoin business owners the ones in charge... because we know 70% of them are corrupt
this is basically a centralized political lobby controlled by big bitcoin business from what i see. until anyone can vote from their bitcoin client, this is a marketing technique by the owners to get bitcoin more accepted so they make more money. not that there is inherently something wrong with this. but i do not think they represent anyone except themselves, even just with the damn name, to represent bitcoin at least somewhat