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This deserves some more attention probably :)

"Fred Wilson (http://avc.com) made a personal donation of 500 Bitcoins to the Foundation."

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=48 (https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=48)

Here's a better link: http://gawk.it/search?forum=avc&search_type=blogs&query=bitcoin

Quite frankly, I'm getting tired of correcting your errors.  ;D

Thanks for the post, Erik.

~Bruno K~

Your link doesn't mention the 500 btc donation, and that post of his was before his donation. So this is new news, Mr. Bruno :)

This is exciting  :D

Who the heck is Fred Wilson?

Well, your avc.com doesn't mention any 500 btc donation either, so there. You mess with me one more time, and I'm going to show the community that you got that mask you wear out of Genjix's closet.  ;D

~Cackling Bear~

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I would like to know this too...
and what is VC on his page?
TIA

Are we supposed to know this guy ?

Fred Wilson is a big-time tech-focused venture capitalist who founded Union Square Ventures. USV has been involved with investing early in companies such as Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, 10gen, Codecademy, and Zynga.

He's definitely one of the highest-profile investors in the Bitcoin space.

you guys,  I don't want to be a dick and post a link to LMGTFY but Fred Wilson is a BTC friendly venture capitalist.  A venture capitalist is someone who invents money in start ups. 

"One of the first outspeakers, Fred Wilson, a prominent venture capital figure, noted bitcoin as the next big thing on the internet, according to a wildly popular Wired.com article, illustrating the rise and so called article-publication-time fall of Bitcoin itself."
 - http://technikals.com/bitcoin-receives-venture-capital-attention-indirectly-through-coinbase/706

TECH Venure Capitolists are closely watched by the media so Fred Wilson action's mean:
1.  He believe's a bitcoin buisness will eventualy make him money.
2.  He will bring more main stream media attention to the bitcoin economy.

These are other names you should know.

"Paul Graham is currently the third major technology investor to show support for Bitcoin. The first was Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, and the second major investor was Tim Draper."
- http://btcwallet.tumblr.com/post/26255091414/ycombinator-funding-a-bitcoin-startup-coinbase-the

Hope that helps.

You are forgetting that Fred Wilson raised a $5 million investment for Dwolla.

Uh, The Bitcoin Foundation has done nothing? Guess you don't recall that Bitcoin Foundation funding goes in part to finance programmers' work on the Bitcoin client?

Good news. Y-Combinator, Union Square Ventures...
But this 500 BTC seem more like to be a private donation, not a official Union Square Ventures investment. What ever, that's good news.

500 Btc isn't that much money compared to a programmers yearly  salary...

Awesome!  ;D

lookout. fred wilson, bitcoin foundation, dwolla & illuminati plan to take over bitcoin

how do you type a deep -  inhaling -  toking sound?

It's great that Fred's publicly supporting the foundation. For one thing, it means Fred likely holds a decent amount of BTC himself.

Remember, that Fred makes his startup investments under the umbrella of Union Square Ventures, and he's not the only partner. From what I understand, if the USV partners are not unanimous on an investment, they don't make it. So it's possible that while Fred might be interested in investing in more companies in the bitcoin space, his partners may not yet be on board.

wow the foundation has so far received more than 5000 BTC in donation, in just 2 months. What will the money be used for?

1/2 of Gavin's Salary

He didn't publicly Support the foundation, cause he never tweeted, or blog posted about it. How do we even know if that was suppose to be anonymous donation, and they outed him. I really think Fred Wilson should write a blog post. Also how do you know he holds any bitcoins, remember bitinstant is part of the foundation how do we know he just brought 500btcs and instantly gave them to the foundation, and bitinstant waived the fee.

agreed.  the fact that he donated 500 BTC means he personally owns thousands and is not likely to sell them. 

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ok I'm going to type they every time you make a stupid statement like the bitcoin Illuminati.

Paying off a congressman.

Great news!

Which one?

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