Quote from: The_Duke on August 30, 2011, 09:29:52 AM

Quote from: Chris Acheson on August 30, 2011, 09:26:07 AM

Agreed. In my opinion, Bruce has gone from being mostly neutral for Bitcoin's image to being an enormous liability. The community should distance itself from him and not allow him to act as a spokesperson anymore.

After seeying the first posts by Bruce about... ALL THE... TRULY... AWESOME THING HIS... bitoin... CONFERENCE... would have, I already felt Bruce was stepping way across some boundaries by pretending to be anything "official" to bitcoin. The problem is... this is all open source, so it's kinda hard to prevent.
Tomorrow, Muammar Khadaffi might flee to Algeria, and proclaim he is now the official Bitcoin spokesman and he will host awesome conferences in his big tent. And there's nothing we could do about it.

I mostly mean that members of the Bitcoin community shouldn't sponsor his show or attend his conferences, and that we should ask him to step back from the position that he's taken.