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Andreas rocks more then I do. :P Just Kidding!

Andreas is well known name for people who're involved with Bitcoin. I've seen Andreas all interviews and regularly makes notes from his expert comment. I've never seen someone speak so fluently about technology and economy at same time. I love logic's, warrants and metaphor he quotes. He's so soft spoken and patient while explaining.(Only thing, I don't like is- his ant colony example). Now, when foundation member is arrested and therefore resigned. We've an important seat vacant. What do you think guys about Andreas for Bitcoin Foundation? I think, he much more capable spokesman then Patrik or any other member from Bitcoin Foundation(while speaking about Bitcoin and economy with general public). They must absorb him for community good.

Interview with RT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ1yWihBNA4

And Adam Back.

(Girl in linked video is hot, I do her.)

You do her but after me. :P

guys! really.... lol

Should Andreas join the row of sitting ducks for persecution by totalitarians? Yeah, sure!

Not sure people will be lining up to join the Bitcoin Foundation at the moment.

That's why I've initiated post here to encourage him. Hope, he's active on forum.

I mean people with all the "encouragement in the world" won't be sticking their heads above the parapet. Why put yourself through the USA security mill?

People with clear conscience won't be afraid to do that.

When everything is a "crime", everybody is a "criminal". Having a clear conscience would require being comatose from the age of criminal responsibility until death.

Ive watched all youtubes vids of andreas and in my mind the guy is a genius communicator. Bitcoin can only prosper with guys like Andreas, whether he's part of the foundation or not he's doing a fantastic job.

Indeed he's doing a good job. But, for you and me who understands Bitcoin have clear idea about logic's and gravity of his words. But, when it comes to common man, all there care is "person from which post" is speaking and give gravity to their words. He/We need to elevate himself to "post." for obvious reason.

Voted yes, he knows what he's talking about and would be a great spokesman.

Well the foundation certainly has a vacancy at the moment ;)

Andreas else Satoshi is appropriate for vacancy. ;D

lol. Satoshi might not be a great public speaker. I've really no idea  ;D

I like him. Seems to have his head screwed. Maybe he can replace Charlie Shrem  :D.

I don't think he'd be a great speaker considering fact genius are bad at expressing themselves. They've so much in mind going that putting thoughts in pattern is quite difficult. And he's genius among genius. Just a thought!

Mark Karpeles needs to be kicked off the board, that dirty criminal is no good for the foundation. I expect him to be arrested next.

Are you mind reader?  :o
How come you know thoughts going in mind. Once government starts digging more, they'll discover lot of illegal activity and insider trading going in which Mt.Gox is king. I never understood what made Jed MaCeleb write exchange codes for Mt. Gox and tell his friend to establish exchange in Japan rather then his own country that too run buy a french guy you don not understand much about what he runs. Just to prove Satoshi is Japanese?
I believe, Jed is one or other way involved with Bitcoin seeing his past journey with centralization to decentralization.

It is just so obvious.. Gox already pulled suspicious shit thousands of times.

I will have my shorts ready when the Gox/Mark Karpeles bust hits mainstream media.

Are you really a Junior member? I doubt.

I have been following bitcoin for quite a while and used to have an older account here but lost access. So, not new to this all.

Please don't post a pic of you in your shorts.

Andreas all the way.  We need anonymity in BTC quickly.

Too bad I'm not capable to express how I really feel.

~TMIBTCITW

Dito that.

He's got a good combo of:  

1) smart/knows the guts of Bitcoin
2) good communicator
3) seems to actually want to see fair money (i.e., Bitcoin) replace our current parasitic debt money system

They see him as a liability.  The foundation is dominated by statists who want to play nice with regulators.  

Hence, being voted in during the next election.

Fuck it! We'll draft him.  ;D

The real question is, do we need the Bitcoin foundation?

Hence, putting in place our Manchurian Candidate.  ;D

Andreas is a great ambassador of bitcoin.

How do candidates get "put forward" for a place on the foundation?

Someone with an identical name to Andreas' is listed as a member of the Foundation.

https://members.bitcoinfoundation.org/current

Andreas doesn't need a "leadership" job at the foundation.  He's too valuable for that.  He needs to keep doing exactly what he's been doing.  Trust me, he knows a lot better than people here how to best utilize his talents and time.  You guys should just try to support him by donating funds (btc) to him at his website and spreading the word about all his kickass videos on YouTube to people who are interested in learning more about Bitcoin.    Just sayin'.

It's a nice thought but he said he doesn't have the necessary coding skills; though he has the technical abilities to know how to best move bitcoin forward.

If it happened bitcoin would be more successful but it seems unlikely.

Thanks for this valuable insight, bud. (seriously)

We do not need. But, we must fight one thing at-a-time. We can get rid of Bitcoin Foundation later.

Ech. Thanks for reminding me I need to request to have my membership revoked.

I had same question going in mind about our respected Bitcoin Foundation that decides what to update or not. Or better say gives us option to update between orange candy and mango candy by hiding strawberry candy.

You know what the problem with Andreas is to most people? I'll tell you he likes liberty and truth and most people don't want liberty or truth, they want you to tone it down watch what you say compromise, regulate and get along and keep is safe. Andreas is not that man that's the problem with him, and most who are for interacting with government are like that Andreas is not , I listened to his blood almost boil when some guy said like it or not you will be regulated Andreas almost exploded had hard time containing himself.

Just for the record I like Andreas but I"m a looser to most people the average "educated" "successful" "respected" people.

Andreas >>>>M<<<< Antonopoulos, pls in the future don't forget the blood "M" :D

http://youtu.be/yTupVFxDfII?t=2m32s

Thanks ;D

Kludge,

Is he active participant in Bitcoin Forum? I wonder.

No. He was banned a long time ago. He went by Atlas and a bunch of other monikers I don't remember. Did you know all of the letters of "Atlas" is in Andreas' full name? Wow. Amazing.

If you do a Google Image search of Andreas, as I do every day, you'll notice he tends to wear a lot of blue. Atlas loved the color blue so much that he only used blue-colored lightbulbs in his room. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68493

I wouldn't dare suggest to Andreas while face-to-face that he is/"was" Atlas, though. He'd probably punch me in the kidneys.... for blowing his cover, obviously.

Not banned at present:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=79085

I doubt he's Atlas.

Ha ha, finally someone who understands the matrix we are in.

Oh how I was wishing Andreas was speaking in place of Charles Lee or the Ripple chick at the NYDFS hearings.  Things would have been much smoother.

I think Andreas would be fore ignoring those in NY hearing what gives them the right to "regulate" bitcoin, I don't agree anyone is alowed to regulate me so what give them the right to do such a thing? In a republic we are free to do what we want and organize how we want no one can regulate that freedom away that is what a constitutional republic is, what they are doing in NY is evil and I think I would just ignore them my guess is that is what Andreas is for not consent to the evil "regulators" who give them the right??

He's not.  He's only active on Twitter.  If you want him to see something, post to his Twitter.
In fact, everyone here should add him there:  @aantonop

I can almost guarantee he has absolutely zero interest in being on the Bitcoin Foundation board.
Its a centralized organization, which goes against everything Bitcoin stands for.

Creating one in the first place was nothing more than a power move on the part of the founders.
They don't even recognize other "foundations" in other countries.
They force them to become "sub-chapters" of the American foundation.
What a completely terrible idea in the world of the first fully decentralized currency.

The ant colony example he uses, is brilliant.  
Bitcoin is a (good) virus.  Let it infect the world on its own.

Besides, they only hire Americans.  Andreas has an accent.  
Even if you're a citizen, in America if you have an accent, you might as well be from Mars.

+1,000,000

Charles was stuttering the entire time.  

I like the fact that Andreas is outside of the foundation. I think he's an important figure for developing and sharing perspectives and big ideas for bitcoin and to do that he should maintain an objective position in the bitcoin space.

Andreas rocks. He's so passionate about bitcoin and he really makes sense when he talks!

Yeah! Mr. Lee was just promoting Litecoin. Whenever, NYDFS asked anything about Bitcoin, he used to answer giving reference of Litecoin. Promotion! Promotion! Promotion! Selfish guy!

I am not Atlas, that's someone else. No big deal, it's not a "cover", just not me. I post publicly and with my name everywhere.  I have never been active in the Foundation forums.

Thank you for your support.

I post here occasionally, this is my forum handle.

I am a member of the Bitcoin Foundation. I had a lot of concerns in the beginning because of the leadership. Recently, with the transition to Jon Matonis as chair and the elections of members, I see things have improved.

I am currently the chair of the anti-poverty and development working group within the foundation, a position that is focused on work responsibility rather than a title. I am not interested in becoming a board member, I think I can be more effective as an independent member and by working as part of the various committees.

I think it would be best if the next person to be added to the board of the foundation was someone who is not an English-speaking white male. We have plenty of that. However, it is not up to me to say. I'd prefer to see elections among the members, with a ranked-choice voting system

Thank you again for the support, it is humbling to be nominated by the community like this.

Yeah you can definitely tell that a lot of them are not too experienced in public speaking.   Andreas would have been really good because he can articulate well, and make complex statements more understandable for complete newbies...

Bitcoin development needs decentralization against attack and kidnapping

My mom always said, there are four kind of people in world:
One, who can only take care of themselves like beggar.
Two, who can take care of themselves and one more person around them like wife at max, Example people who pull rickshaws, labor in third world countries etc.
Third type of person, are who are capable to taking care of themselves, their family and people around them like, a learned-educated man.
But, people who belong to fourth category are few. They'r born with capabilities and potential to take care of themselves, their family, their locality, their society and humanity.

You seem to be the one who belongs to fourth category. Thank you for noble views, Andreas!
I wish you all luck in work for your future endeavors!

I hadn't noticed this thread. I can understand the decision - it's a real pity though.  I do think you could have had a positive impact on the situation - particularly given that it's an industry seat and those seats are in serious need of a radical makeover.  8)

That^.

Bitcoin Foundation is operating behind closed doors, and I don't think that someone like Antonopoulos would like to join

I'd say Andreas is a more important independent voice. Let's keep him out of the BF in the name of decentralisation.

Trust the mechanism dont trust people  >:(

Go to Read satoshi bitcoin whitepaper 10000 times  if you vote yes :o

Bitcoin doesn't need a "foundation", and the current one has proven itself completely irrelevant. Why would Andreas want to be part of such a thing?

Certianly it does, but does Andreas need the Bitcoin Foundation. It seems he's doing a grand old job without it.

Maybe instead of joining this foundation that don't do much recently any way, he can just start his own thing.

I think he is a member.

Read http://www.coindesk.com/will-bitcoin-truly-inclusive/

He is leading a BF committee.


Hope nobody gets scammed by this new BF endeavour.