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This thread will garner individual names for prospects we would like to see interviewed for inclusion in subsequent Bitcoin Magazine issues.

To get the ball a rollin', I'll start and maintain a list so that Matthew, et al., could have a handy place to view the notables. The names will be linked to some webpage to get the editor's created juices a flowin'. As time goes on, I may reshuffle the list, having names gravitate to the top if intense interest ensues.

Needless to say, any suggested names should be connected with BTCitcoin in some way or fashion but, of course, cryptographist may also be considered. I feel that including Satoshi Nakamoto to the list would serve no real world purpose. I hope you understand.

• Satoshi Nakamoto (http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
• Paco Ahlgren (http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-A-Novel-Paco-Ahlgren/dp/0979084202)
• Boris Reitman (https://booster.io/content/about_us.html)
• Mark Edge and Ian Freeman (http://www.freetalklive.com/)
• Jon Matonis (http://themonetaryfuture.blogspot.com/)
• "DPR" From SR (reason for strikethrough) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89472.msg1014303#msg1014303)
• IAmA (http://www.reddit.com/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/?sort=top)
• Erik Voorhees (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/voorhees1.1.1.html)
• Julian Assange (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange)
• Some/any notorious hacker.
• Any US Government or FBI/CIA official.
• Stephen Gornick (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2228)
• Gavin Andresen (http://gavinthink.blogspot.com/)
• theymos  ;D (http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCsCgz62OQjND0yxJ9Ehi3vBDOhb5Lju4ueVpUQn45OSBbmaEnVKaLPBG4)
• Amir Taaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki)
• Ben Reeves (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/04/26/be-your-own-bank-bitcoin-wallet-for-apple/)
• Mark Karpeles (http://blog.magicaltux.net/)
• Tony Gallippi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTX5yY0DozQ)
• Roger Ver (http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/11/26/roger-vers-fantastic-bitcoin-interview/)
• Charlie Shrem (https://www.bitinstant.com/aboutus)
• Gareth Nelson (https://www.bitinstant.com/aboutus)
• Any of the core devs.
• Any merchant who has had success in dealing with bitcoin.
• Representative from a major bank, or from SWIFT
• Luke-Jr. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3318)
• knightmb (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=345)
• http://mezegrill.com/our-team.html (http://)
• GLBSE  ~ Nefario (http://posterous.com/users/he6XH1TgTIKx4#activities/page/1)
• Butterfly Labs (http://www.butterflylabs.com/)
• That Alpaca Sock Guy/Family (where are they now?)
• Stefan Molyneux (http://www.freedomainradio.com/About.aspx)
• laszlo (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0)
• Peter Schiff (http://schiffradio.com/)
• Marc Faber (http://new.gloomboomdoom.com/public/pSTD.cfm?pageSPS_ID=6000)
• Jim Rogers (http://jimrogers-investments.blogspot.com/)
• Ron Paul (http://www.ronpaul.com/)
• Cenk Uygur (http://www.theyoungturks.com/)
• Donal O'Mahony (http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Donal.OMahony/)
• Michael Peirce (http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/228/) (Peirce?)
• Hitesh Tewari (http://people.tcd.ie/htewari)
• Michael Clear (http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Irish-cryptologist-denies-he-created-bitcoin-the-internet-currency-code-131130853.html)
• Rick Falkvinge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge)
• Air VPN (https://airvpn.org/)
• TorGuard (https://torguard.net/)
• Pirateat40 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35827)
• botnet operator (http://www.reddit.com/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/?sort=top)
• sirius-m
• Jimmy Wales (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales)
• tcatm (https://github.com/tcatm)
• amiller (https://github.com/amiller/)
• copumpkin (https://github.com/copumpkin)
• Mike Masnick (http://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick)
• Charlie Sheen
• ThomasV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3137)
• Bill Gates
• Detlev Schlichter (http://papermoneycollapse.com/)
• gigavps (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=19617)
• imsaguy (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=37137)
• nanotube (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1268)
• Ben Bernanke
• Tom (or Ted) Williams

What name would you like to see on the list?

Feel free to provide me better links for the above names, sans theymos's.

~Bruno~

I nominate the following:

1. Gareth Nelson (Creator of Bitinstant and mathematical genius)
2. John Matonis (Creator of Hushmail, Forbes writer and pro-bitcoin economist)
3. Mark Edge and Ian Freeman (Creators and co-hosts of Free Talk Live largest nationally syndicated Libertarian radio program)
4. Satoshi

-Charlie

Good luck with that. :D

Erik Vorhees

Anonymous interview with SR people?

Yeah.. Get "DPR" From SR to talk...

I'll go ask him for ya k?

Interesting!

I will update the list later this evening. Thanks, all. Keep 'em comin'.

~Bruno~

Julian Assange.
Some notorious hacker.
US gov official.
FBI official.

Stephen Gornick
John Matonis
Gavin Andresen
Amir Taaki
Ben Reeves
Mark Karpeles
Tony Gallippi    
Roger Ver
Charlie Shrem

a lot more

Well, there was that anonymous fellow on reddit AmA awhile back who ran a botnet that mined for bitcoins, among other things. I'll try to find the link.

Myself and Charlie (I suggested this joint format to him and he was all polite and said it should be just me - but we do form a team)
Any merchant who has had success in dealing with bitcoin
Any of the core devs
Mark Karpeles (MagicalTux)
Representative from a major bank, or from SWIFT

Seconded + Luke-Jr.

- knightmb (the early adopter that got 300k+ BTC in his wallet)
- The GLBSE peeps
- vladimir and his ASIC (in the sky)farm
- Butterfly Labs people
- The guy that robbed bitcoinica
- Tom Williams

That's meee!

Seriously though, that would be really awesome!

And I second BFL. That would be eye opening to those that don't live on the forums ::)

Oh, and the dude with the socks....

I've already suggested someone that I hope will be chosen, and it was months ago, so maybe it will happen! I'd suggest that you guys send your ideas to the editorial board instead of posting them here, though.

Stefan Molyneux

Which one? The first, or 2nd? They have been hacked twice, and there was a 3rd instance, but does not get talked about much...  Those incompetent fuckers!

Laszlo, the guy who bought a 10 000 bitcoin pizza.

Noted CIA asset and outed space lizard Gavin Andresen.

Gavin Andresen's grandmother. http://tmblr.co/ZMIp3vN-eCHD 

Peter Schiff
Marc Faber

I'd add Jim Rogers to that list.
These guys aren't exactly FED fans...

Ron Paul

The more the merrier!

A couple more, and there'll be talk of having a convention in Pattaya. I'm going to update the list now, and might as well put Satoshi Nakamoto at the top.

~Bruno~

The list will be sent to them, along with having a running list on this forum.

~Bruno~

I nominate Cenk Uyger? of the Young Turks.

He is progressive, but doesn't like the main banks printing free money for themselves.

+ they have like tens of thousands of daily viewers.

"Donal O'Mahony, Michael Peirce, Hitesh Tewari and now Michael Clear (et al., possibly more)"  ;)

I'd suggest removing Gareth Nelson from 20th in the list.  He's nowhere near as interesting as the Gareth Nelson in 5th place.  And interviewing both of them could confuse people.

Who cares about Matonis or Takir? Their opinions are on their OWN news all the time already. No need to perpetuate their views again and again and again..

I would love to hear Butterfly Labs do an inside look.

Rick Falkvinge (founder of the first Pirate Party, the one in Sweden)

Businesses that accept Bitcoin because it routes around problems with the legacy banking system:

Air VPN
TorGuard

Alpaca Sock Seller, that OP can't seem to find: http://www.grasshillalpacas.com/alpacaproductsforbitcoinoffer.html

Is this what you were looking for? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=30.0

I think it would be nice to see an ad in Bitcoin Magazine by Grass Hill Alpacas, with them, once again, accepting BTC as payment, coupled with a blurb on their site such as "As Seen in Bitcoin Magazine". Perhaps the editors of Bitcoin Magazine can approach them with such a proposition, offering them a reduced ad rate.

I will now update the OP for Matthew and the other editors of Bitcoin Magazine.

~Bruno~

Though I doubt it will lead to more than the little that the community has pried out of him, Pirateat40.

The list in the OP has been updated. Feel free to peruse it to make sure the links are correct or need updating.

~Bruno~

Kim DotCom

Issue 1 - Pages 52-57  ;D

Issue 1 - Pages 65-67  8)

Jon Matonis writes brilliantly and regularly in Forbes online. He must be on the list.

You are three minutes ahead of me, for I just picked up the physical issue to make sure I hadn't included any names which may have already been interviewed. I will be conducting an investigation to seek out who's to blame for this faux pas (i4t) right after I edit the OP.

Merci (i4t), bittenbob.

~Bruno~

Oh yeah, Id vote for Pirateat40 as well! Even if it would be just an amusing fairytale to read his interview, it would still be amusing.

Here's that link of the botnet operator (this also received a good deal of press outside of reddit):

http://www.reddit.com/comments/sq7cy/iama_a_malware_coder_and_botnet_operator_ama/?sort=top

Don't know how you would interview him, though. Or whether he would be a worthy subject.

Charlie Sheen
Bill Gates

Ben Bernanke  ::)

a pair of Alpaca socks. "Quit using me as an example, damnit!"

I would like to read more about all Bitcoin network contributors ,this people deserve it http://bitcoin.org/about.html (http://bitcoin.org/about.html)
sirius-m is very mystic person ,this might be an anonymous interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OztVYTS_Ei8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OztVYTS_Ei8)

tcatm
sirius
amiller
copumpkin
theymos

Jimmy Wales

Mike Masnick of Techdirt. I would be surprised if he didn't already lurk here, though interested if he has a forum account I've encountered before. Used to read  Techdirt religiously when I had time. Now, I browse the forum, write up stuff in Google Docs, occasionally glance at daughter to make sure she's not swallowing knives, and that's about it. Seriously... I must spend something like 4 hours a day on this forum, now - it's insane.

Only four hours/day?

Interview creators of light clients. For example ThomasV

I'm confused already - there's another Gareth Nelson in this community?

Paco Ahlgren and interview about he's book Discipline

Tom Williams! Tom Williams! ;D

I'm putting this one at the top of the list, just below Satoshi Nakamoto. I'll link to his book via Amazon until somebody provides me a better link. Thanks for the suggestion, World.

~Bruno~

I've updated the list in the OP.


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Is sirius-m and sirius one of the same?


I just ordered this book through a new bookstore in town (we now have two). It cost me twice as much to order through her via Amazon than if I would have done it myself, but wanted to patronize the new establishment. This was done while I was donating over 1,000 used books to her for her to sell and keep the profit. Perhaps, I should quit doing shit like that and hope that Discipline helps me in that regard.

Could somebody please tell me again why I'm doing this for Matthew and Bitcoin Magazine? Also, why am I going to start a new thread relating to Bitcoin Magazine?

~Bruno~

gigavps, imsaguy, nanotube, rg.

Detlev Schlichter (author of Paper Money Collapse)

I think it is and he is on this forum and one of the first core developer BTCprotocol


for the best content  ;D

Thanks, and thanks, World. I knew I had a reason.


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Done! With the exception of rg. Not sure who you meant there, if anyone.

~Bruno~

Hi Phin,
 Have we talked about interviewing a SR vendor yet? Apologies if this has been brought up before (I think it has).

R-

#6 on the list in the OP, R-.

~Bruno~

rg is short for rapeghost, and that's the nickname of the guy that runs BitVPS.com.

Great thanks for the response. The admin, DPR, based on my experiences with him, will decline the said interview. Maybe an actual vendor instead?

Thank you.

No problem, bud. Thanks letting us know. I will strike out the name and link this post as the source as to why.

~Bruno~

Vandroiy.

I sent DPR a PM on the forums a while back... Another mod said its doubtful he'll talk.....

website related to Tom Williams: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22221.0

Anthropologists David Graeber and Keith Hart

also, Max Keiser

Max Keiser!Max Keiser! >:(

Tosaki, creator of BitMit

Matthew Bishop ,he wrote a very interesting book Economist - In Gold We Trust? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=92585.new#new)

Neal Stephenson

hahahhaha

I find it hilarious that people are getting nominated who have made no significant contribution to anything Bitcoin related other than being someone well known on this forum, I am sure Barnes and Noble customers are dying to hear more about gigavps's many mining rigs!

my nominations:

casacius <--- creator of the first and best Physical Bitcoin

EldenTyrell <--- creator of the innovative Tricone Mining bitstream

ckvolias <--- developer of cgminer

Slush <--- creator of one of the first bitcoin mining pools

Luke-JR <--- owner of Eligius, Bitcoin developer, among other things

Tycho <--- owner of Deepbit and creator of one of the first Bitcoin mining pools

TheSeven <--- brilliant hardware guy, FPGA developer, Sofware developer among many other things

The CEO of Butterfly Labs <--- id love to find out more about him or her

Bitlane (give him is own column!)  <-- I mean hey if your going to nominate people for popularity at least nominate someone interesting

I would like to know what David Rockefeller thinks about bitcoin. That would be a good interview!

I nominate:

John Gilmore
Steven M. Bellovin
Linus Torvalds
Bram Cohen

... had made some damn negative tweets.  ???

As the noted catalyst responsible for the recent Bitcoin Savings & Trust meltdown, I would like the chance to be nominated for an interview, during which time I can further plug the add space I plan to buy in an upcoming issue to 'air my grievances' about a certain TRENDON SHAVERS of McKINNEY, TEXAS, USA.

From what I understand, it's a fake, or 'Doing Business As' name anyway, so standard Libel liabilities would NOT apply.

Please consider me.

Yours Truly,
bitlane

Roberto Gutierrez from AurumExchange. Often overlooked in the Bitcoin arena, he has been in the e-currency industry forever and has a lot of knowledge about the industry. Plus, I think he showed commitment to the Bitcoin community (and balls lol) by setting the Bitcoinica situation straight. Not a single penny would have been recovered without his post.

I didn't read the whole forum yet, but where's Mike Caldwell's name?  He's the owner of https://www.casascius.com/.  I've heard him interviewed before and think he would love to know more about his involvement with bitcoin (more than just his coins).

EDIT: I just went back out to his website.  I'd be curious how much he's made with his Casascius business so far; how much volume he's getting still. 

I'm sure you could make enough questions for an interview.

I adjusted the list. Would make a fine cover story for Bitcoin Magazine's final issue. (rumor started here)

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Trace Mayer is a very educated man and very well understood BTC

I cannot stress how much I agree with this.

Roberto and I, regardless being straight up competitors, have been doing business together since BitInstant entered the Bitcoin space 2 years ago.

Knowing almost everyone in the Bitcoin community, I would say Roberto is in my top 10 people I trust. He is directly responsible for keeping BitInstant running in times of crisis on more then one occasion.
Even though there was obvious monetary gain for us going down, Roberto did everything in his power to keep us up. I can't get into details, but he has taking large financial risk as well.
When BitInstant first opened, there was a small miscommunication btwn him and myself. He could easily have accused us, ect. but decided to take the high road by giving us benefit of the doubt before coming on these forums.

We probably speak at least twice a week, and our businesses rely on each other. I plan on further integrating BitInstant and AurumXChange together.

Finally, regarding the Bitcoinica fiasco: Roberto, Mark and myself did an internal investigation together as most of you know. The ethical behavior Roberto showed during the process was something not expected.

Roberto is a pillar of the Bitcoin community, and we should all cherish his presence.

-Charlie

Look for it within two issues.  ;)  :)

Pres of Mises Institute, Doug French (see this article on Bitcoin):
http://lfb.org/today/currencies-of-the-future/

Also it would be interesting to interview those involved with previous failed experiments in alternative currencies, to see the pitfalls and dangers that could affect Bitcoin in the future.
Eg:

Douglas Jackson (e-gold) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
Eric M. Jackson (author of "The Paypal Wars") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars
Bernard v. Nothaus (Liberty Dollar) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar

Too bad he's no longer with us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Digital_Monetary_Trust

But I'm willing to bet that Sonny Vleisides has personally met JOG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Laissez_Faire_City_Times

Kim Dotcom

Yes. Haha, I'd love to talk to (or even hang out with) that guy :P

Apparently he's very hospitable if you twitter him and tell him you live close by. I'm sure there are stories of him inviting random's over for drinks and a swim in his pool.

A Wordpress rep, and consider giving them cover coverage.

Hal Finney ,
he made the first transaction together with Satoshi
http://www.blogger.com/profile/03982492169754485098 (http://www.blogger.com/profile/03982492169754485098)
http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.be/2011/01/first-bitcoins-ever-spent.html (http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.be/2011/01/first-bitcoins-ever-spent.html)

We tried. They said that they're not ready to give an interview yet. Not that we won't ask again later on, of course :)

And they have cover coverage on #5 anyway.

It would be very interesting to read more about this transaction and Hal Finney in Bitcoin Magazine.This guy deserves it.
Any chances of success?

Now when Giga is one of the owners of magazine, he should interview himself ;)

Billy Cosby.
No, really, Bill Cosby. If anybody is to understand the delicate intricacies of Bitcoin, it would be the jell-o dealer himself.
Also, I find it comforting to hear the voice of passive non-hostile black men. Kinda like Morgan Freeman.
Or the Allstate Insurance guy.

I demand the ability to purchase jell-o with bitcoin. Make it happen, Cosby.

Vladamir. I'm sure he would love to talk to you guys.