Quote from: mpkomara on April 28, 2011, 08:28:02 AM

two thoughts that haven't gotten too much attention on this thread.

1) Why do we think Gavin's talk will be available to the public? It's the CIA, not TED.
2) If Bitcoin is decentralized, why do we look to Gavin as a leader? Shouldn't the whole project exist more like a headless mob?

(1) Haven't you heard of President Obama's "open government" initiative? That was a pillar of his winning campaing platform. He's already setup the white house website to run on the open-source CMS known as drupal. Maybe we as the bitcoin community can submit questions for re CIA conference people to answer on an open forum. Obama's making government "work". For re people. Yay! And the conference videos will be put on the CIA-TED YouTube channel.

(2) We don't and we shouldn't. Gavin is not representing bitcoin bit is rather trying to help explain to out friends in the CIA how it works.

That reminds me:

FROM THIS POINT ON, WE SHOULD BE LESS TRUSTY OF GAVIN'S (or any other) CODE COMMITS TO THE BITCOIN CODE REPOSITORY.