I am not sure why you are fabricating such aspersions. Your potential defamation of someone else, which I pointed out, would not give me a cause of action to drag you into court and most likely nor would I since it would be against my principles in that particular set of facts you are referring to.

But to move away from water under the bridge and focus on something more pressing you do point out a very important issue: Whether our Bitcoin developers are adequately protected legally?

With subpoenas, cease and desists, etc. already having been sent out I think this is an area of preemptive protection that needs more work done. In fact, one of my friends who only develops software pulled out the subpoena he received and I glanced over it.

Before either the subpoenas or C&Ds went out I raised the issue of a Bitcoin legal defense fund with Patrick Murck at the June Conference. Patrick recommended Brian Klein as chairman of a committee so I traveled to Santa Monica to meet with him, brainstorm what could be done and then we setup the Bitcoin Legal Defense Committee.

And it is precisely contributors and developers like yourself, those who are contributing code pro-bono, that I would like to see primarily and directly protected by whatever legal shield we can fashion.


Mainly to make it easier for those not following the conversation to get a grasp on the facts.

I think our training results in approaching issues differently. I am referring to the style of presentation: professional, issue and fact focused, either presenting objectively or arguing persuasively depending on the circumstance. I have never slug barbs at your personally in an ad hominem attack but instead focused only on the ideas and arguments you have presented.

On another note, in many areas like the assertions you make regarding CoinJoin I find myself agreeing with your positions and consequently have to modify my own positions as a result.