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Re: Elizabeth T. Ploshay for Bitcoin Foundation board
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BTCGuy111
on 13/09/2013, 16:21:18 UTC
The Bitcoin Foundation represents its constituent members, not all Bitcoin users and not some undefined "community."

The fact that the Bitcoin Foundation keeps its discussion board closed so the public cannot view it highlights this problem.  You have some members like Marco Santori saying they represent just the constituent members and business interests while you have others trying to claim the Foundation represents all of Bitcoin.  They don't have a consistent message and people are taking advantage of this unclear message and purpose.

Yes, this is most unfortunate. Joerg actually started a thread on the Foundation forums to open up at least some of the forums for (at least) anonymous read access, but it just didn't get much support:

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/372-why-are-we-behind-a-paywall/


May, many people have asked about this and they are generally ignored.  Some of the early people and developers want to run everything themselves and they want to shut out most of the users from decisions while, at the same time, asking all these people to adopt Bitcoin.  Many of them are young people like theymos who think that because they have been involved in something for 2 or 3 years (something they characterize as some huge amount of time) that it gives them some sort of elevated status.  They want to keep things that way and keep their "positions" much the way bankers want to keep their positions and shut out Bitcoin.  Much like The Bitcoin faucet had to give away coins for the system to become valuable to others these early people need to start thinking about including newcomers.  If you look at many Bitcoin businesses are run and how this forum is run you can see those people know quite a bit about Bitcoin but they are often clueless about most other things.

It's an election for seats on the board of an industry group with paid membership. Why would they open it up? If you can vote, you can read everything.
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Re: Do You Think The Price of Bitcoins Will Go Down To $5.00?
by
BTCGuy111
on 21/08/2013, 02:39:45 UTC
No, I do not.
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Re: Does bitcoin have an expiry date? What do you think?
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BTCGuy111
on 05/08/2013, 11:45:15 UTC
Well this thread got off topic quickly
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Re: How Do I Cash Out My BTC?
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BTCGuy111
on 24/07/2013, 19:40:33 UTC
if you're planning on continuing to trade, go to an exchange, other wise use localbitcoins so you don't have to go through the whole account setup and waiting
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Re: will the bitcoin reach $1000 one day...?
by
BTCGuy111
on 23/07/2013, 15:58:49 UTC
Between the infrastructure being built in the space, new/larger players entering, and the security of the network growing at an exponential rate with all the new ASICs coming online, $1k doesn't seem so far off.
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Re: Bitcoin Mining Dashboard - The Genesis Block
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BTCGuy111
on 18/07/2013, 16:40:16 UTC
I was looking into purchasing an ASICMiner USB. Looks like it'll never return the cost. Is that right?

Also - the site looks great! Thanks for making this.
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Re: Want A Passive Bitcoin Income?
by
BTCGuy111
on 17/07/2013, 00:09:52 UTC
I hope you never make it off the newbie forum.