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Title: 2013-06-22 Can the Bitcoin Foundation build legitimacy for an outlaw currency? Post by: erono on June 24, 2013, 09:56:10 AM http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3436984/bitcoin-foundation-legitimacy-and-standardization
Some of the biggest names in the world of Bitcoin, the unregulated virtual currency with a small but devoted user base, are looking to give it a friendlier public face. Announced last week, the Bitcoin Foundation — which counts lead developer Gavin Andresen and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles among its board members — is meant to do for Bitcoin what the Linux Foundation has helped do for open source software, paying selected developers for full-time work and nailing down best practices. In a letter of intent, Executive Director Peter Vessenes said he hoped the Foundation could legitimize Bitcoin through standardization — a legitimacy that’s sorely needed now. Title: Re: 2013-06-22 Can the Bitcoin Foundation build legitimacy for an outlaw currency? Post by: empoweoqwj on June 24, 2013, 10:05:34 AM http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3436984/bitcoin-foundation-legitimacy-and-standardization Some of the biggest names in the world of Bitcoin, the unregulated virtual currency with a small but devoted user base, are looking to give it a friendlier public face. Announced last week, the Bitcoin Foundation — which counts lead developer Gavin Andresen and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles among its board members — is meant to do for Bitcoin what the Linux Foundation has helped do for open source software, paying selected developers for full-time work and nailing down best practices. In a letter of intent, Executive Director Peter Vessenes said he hoped the Foundation could legitimize Bitcoin through standardization — a legitimacy that’s sorely needed now. When was it outlawed, and in which countries? I must have missed all those announcements. Title: Re: 2013-06-22 Can the Bitcoin Foundation build legitimacy for an outlaw currency? Post by: JohannSummers on June 24, 2013, 05:18:22 PM Strange that the Verge is republishing an article from last October.
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