Self appointed is right. They are managing millions in a land grab. I and many others have concerns when a lot of money is at stake. I'm very upset about this foundation forming.
It has taken since the beginning of BC, starting from rat4 and Soepkip, to branch out and find the right members for this "foundation". This isn't something that has happened overnight. If you can't trust a group of people that have done (and without a premine or IPO to work off)
1. Laid down the infrastructure to make BC relevant with its pools
2. Funded CoinKite (thanks for the help Mintpal)
3. Funded promos for the miners like Black Friday and KNC Titan
4. Done their own PR through Twitter, Reddit, etc
5. A sponsor in Dogecon SF
6. Started up Blackcoin Farm
7. Started Blackcast and showed their faces
8. Now starting a huge PR campaign (
Foundation "officially" formed here, a good 2 months after BC was released and after they have provided the above)
I don't what else you want? Legal names, addresses, phone numbers, day jobs, and etc? Maybe that will soon come, I don't know. But I could certainly understand if some people are not willing to put their personal information here in crypto land,
at least not this soon. After all, everyone keeps talking about BC is still a young coin (which it is). But I'm sure all of that will come with time.
But if you're upset over "foundation" simply because of WDC as you seemed to have hint at before, then that is your problem.
Yeah, I have to agree that these guys have done a lot for the coin, I don't know where they've pulled the money out of for some of the promos (30k blackcoin giveaway for the multipool announced when the price was like 50k satoshi i think, free knc miner, $15k to enlist a PR firm). And that says nothing of time I'm sure many of them have put in.
You don't necessarily have to agree with everything they do, and you don't have to donate to anything they do. If anyone has their own initiatives and projects for the coin, they are more than welcome to start them or even see if the community is willing to lend a hand. With decentralized cryptocurrencies, nothing is ever truly official - once it's released into the wild, it's fair game for anyone. However, the dev team is "official" in the sense that they've been been central to building the coin and the community - without such dedicated people, you end up with stagnant coins that don't go anywhere. So I'm happy we've got people working to build up the coin, both within the "dev team" and without (though I wish people would quit suggesting "pumping"/market manipulation).