Some refreshing straight-up, no-bullshit talk from Joerg Platzer, one of the Board seat candidates in the ongoing Bitcoin Foundation elections:
Quote from: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/344-individual-candidate-joerg-platzer/#entry4036
> If the eye of Sauron is upon you GTFO of Mordor!
The foundation is based in and under the jurisdiction of the US of A. The USA is an absurdly overregulated economy with a regime that is trying to abolish privacy in all aspects of people's lives and thus the most hostile environment for Bitcoin on this planet. The fact that the majority of the current members of the foundation board run rather big businesses that are dependent on the goodwill of that regime does not really make things better.
It is a no-brainer to demand the foundation being internationalised and based in a more freedom-affine country that embraces innovation instead of trying to keep the status quo by all means. We should promote the creation of several independant foundations, associations, societies or organisations, be they defined geographically or focused on certain aspects of crypto-economics or certain goals of their members.
Any satoshi spent on 'lobbying for Bitcoin in Washington' is an irresponsible waste of money donated by members of the Bitcoin community in good faith. And it will take us exactly nowhere.
The foundation is based in and under the jurisdiction of the US of A. The USA is an absurdly overregulated economy with a regime that is trying to abolish privacy in all aspects of people's lives and thus the most hostile environment for Bitcoin on this planet. The fact that the majority of the current members of the foundation board run rather big businesses that are dependent on the goodwill of that regime does not really make things better.
It is a no-brainer to demand the foundation being internationalised and based in a more freedom-affine country that embraces innovation instead of trying to keep the status quo by all means. We should promote the creation of several independant foundations, associations, societies or organisations, be they defined geographically or focused on certain aspects of crypto-economics or certain goals of their members.
Any satoshi spent on 'lobbying for Bitcoin in Washington' is an irresponsible waste of money donated by members of the Bitcoin community in good faith. And it will take us exactly nowhere.