DPR = Dread Pirate Roberts = founder and main operator of Silk Road drug trafficking site that buys/sells things with BTC.
Nice article in Forbes about him.
I don't have nearly as many. He must be the richest person on Earth, then. Is there anyone else who publicly owns 100k BTC or more? Lol. Hard to be the richest person on earth if all you own are Bitcoins...even f you owned all of them and could sell each one at current trading prices  |
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Weird idea ya got there. Your emailing the secretary will not get a reply. You need to ask (or become) a member to get items on the agenda. I would not support wasting time on the obvious and will not suggest it as an agenda item...your concerns are unrealistic. I don't want to set a precedent of having to reply to every wild accusation to appease people who aren't even paying to advance Bitcoin.
So I have to pay to get a reply? Also, I don't like your tone. You already sound like a government agent. 'Sorry, you mailed the wrong address, you should have known!' 'Since you behaved not according to our standards, I will not put your item on the agenda, you are wasting time' 'You aren't contributing to the system, so you have no right to reply' It was actually my intention to donate, but you probably read over that part. Before I donate somewhere, I want to know what their principles are. And trust me, I was about to donate a fairly large amount. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. Edit: Oh yeah, like a real politician, you actually avoided answering my questions. Let me be direct: your concerns amount to hysterics. Nobody on the foundation wants to (or could) change the rules of Bitcoin. I'm not interested in having hysterics in a foundation that tries to get real work (the kind of work worth paying for) accomplished. Please start your own foundation to pay for stuff. I suggest you use a name that sounds less like Foundation and more like "club" or "well-wishers." This way you'll find it easier to keep the feeble minded from thinking you are evil. Oh, don't charge more than $30 entrance fee and update your btc based fee each week if necessary to keep the fiat cost low (instead of once chabging it once a year...or forget using that whole Bitcoin thing for actually receiving payments, it's too unstable to be useful...please note this is sarcasm). |
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Weird idea ya got there. Your emailing the secretary will not get a reply. You need to ask (or become) a member to get items on the agenda. I would not support wasting time on the obvious and will not suggest it as an agenda item...your concerns are unrealistic. I don't want to set a precedent of having to reply to every wild accusation to appease people who aren't even paying to advance Bitcoin.
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I think he intended to become rich. I think he intended to remain anonymous to make it easier for people to forget that advancing Bitcoin makes him richer. In fact, all future Bitcoin users are what speculators are banking on for profit. It's not that different from a Ponzi scheme...but it's not technically a Ponzi scheme (Or, it's no more a Ponzi scheme than fiat).
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I suggest a sister poll: I can vote because I'm a Foundation member: y/n
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How much money have you spent compensating people to work on the protocol? If you did pay to make something Bitcoin related better for us all, I would thank you rather than mock your efforts.
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Hi, I just saw this picture pass by on Twitter. Can anyone confirm whether Amazon is now accepting Bitcoins?
Edit: I just heard that it's invite only still.
I think you meant to post this 4/1/2013  Doesn't look like the market jumped up there for ya... |
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Cough...Bitcoin Foundation...cough...
Something to think about....Bitcoin is worth paying for. And it's worth paying to make it better.
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We want the miners to make lots of profit...they are securing the network and we want the network to be worth securing.
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Not a good idea for currency. See Freicoin...demurrage currency ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency) ) Another bad but similar idea: How about a coin that knows who owns it? This way, coins can redistribute themselves from rich people to poor people each week...and currency ownership taxes can be paid automatically every hour! |
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I bought some at $66. Price nearly doubled. Dropped down to about $100....kind of a crazy ride.
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These are just growing pains Charlie. Eat well. Sleep when you can. This too shall pass. Thank you for what you do for the community.
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I guess I'll chalk it up to experience at this point. It seems that there might be someone else that had a handle on one of the private keys in an old wallet address of mine. I had transferred 2.29 BTC from an online fund to a wallet address (137XxRSiYRTB8PyGvEjjz5vZsd7oSNbdbE). After it received a confirmation, I end up seeing another transaction I didn't approve of sending those 2.29 BTC over to 1J8KsZqj8qWWUSqH2bmQHTTEm1xdNLY7AZ. Not sure how this managed to happen, though I'm not too happy about it at this point. I've marked the wallet never to be used now. Not really looking for a solution unless anyone knows who or how it may have happened, but it sucks to see bitcoins disappear like that especially at the current valuation...  Ever import a private key to MtGox? I'm not sure what happens if you re-load a previously imported private key... |
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This sounds childish. The foundation has zero authority. Zero. As in none. The foundation exists to get money from lots of people and give it to few people so they can make Bitcoin better. It's rather simple. Supporting the foundation is supporting Bitcoin, not some authority. If you are like nearly everyone on this forum, you either never contributed code to Bitcoin or you were never paid for whatever it is you have done to advance Bitcoin. Consequently, very few people have dedicated their careers to the Bitcoin protocol We can't keep hoping that the important work on Bitcoin keeps getting done for free (or quickly...during someone else's nights, weekends, and vacations). And you worry about authority? Yes, board members decide how the donations are spent. If you don't like that, all you can do is to be a part of changing it. But you can't do that from the outside. The foundation is a joke and it is sad that they have conned so many people into paying for something. Obviously Gavin's heart was never into bitcoin, cause if he is just looking for a pay check which is the main reason the foundation was setup, then he shouldn't be writing the code. Have you quit you job to work on Bitcoin? Did your wife approve? Did you worry about saving for your daughters college fund...her wedding...your retirement? Real people with real lives and real talent need more than "heart" to make life happen. Bitcoin is my career. I am only 23 so I don't have a family, but I own my own apartment because I work hard on bitcoin. I ask every company I use to accept bitcoin. I been contributing my share to the bitcoin community. If Gavin can't work on bitcoin then it isn't for him, he should move on, or get a paying gig, but to have the foundation pay for open source work is INSANE!!!!!!!!! Open source programming isn't worth paying for? |
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Don't be silly. These are the people that are making your Bitcoins worth something.
This comment made me think of plantation owners telling their slaves at least we give you food. If you are likening yourself to a slave, what work were you forced to do? |
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This sounds childish. The foundation has zero authority. Zero. As in none. The foundation exists to get money from lots of people and give it to few people so they can make Bitcoin better. It's rather simple. Supporting the foundation is supporting Bitcoin, not some authority. If you are like nearly everyone on this forum, you either never contributed code to Bitcoin or you were never paid for whatever it is you have done to advance Bitcoin. Consequently, very few people have dedicated their careers to the Bitcoin protocol We can't keep hoping that the important work on Bitcoin keeps getting done for free (or quickly...during someone else's nights, weekends, and vacations). And you worry about authority? Yes, board members decide how the donations are spent. If you don't like that, all you can do is to be a part of changing it. But you can't do that from the outside. The foundation is a joke and it is sad that they have conned so many people into paying for something. Obviously Gavin's heart was never into bitcoin, cause if he is just looking for a pay check which is the main reason the foundation was setup, then he shouldn't be writing the code. Have you quit you job to work on Bitcoin? Did your wife approve? Did you worry about saving for your daughters college fund...her wedding...your retirement? Real people with real lives and real talent need more than "heart" to make life happen. |
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Don't be silly. These are the people that are making your Bitcoins worth something.
So your contention is that without these 3 companies bitcoin would be worthless? No. My contention is that these guys made you money. Without them, you would have less. Don't forget, the main goal of the foundation is to pay the devs. The Foundation has no authority. It's basically setup to take handouts and give them to clever people who otherwise could not afford to quit their jobs to work on Bitcoin. I doubt any of us realize how many nights, weekends, and vacations have been spent on making the protocol actually work. For free. That's why there is a foundation. |
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This sounds childish. The foundation has zero authority. Zero. As in none. The foundation exists to get money from lots of people and give it to few people so they can make Bitcoin better. It's rather simple. Supporting the foundation is supporting Bitcoin, not some authority. If you are like nearly everyone on this forum, you either never contributed code to Bitcoin or you were never paid for whatever it is you have done to advance Bitcoin. Consequently, very few people have dedicated their careers to the Bitcoin protocol We can't keep hoping that the important work on Bitcoin keeps getting done for free (or quickly...during someone else's nights, weekends, and vacations). And you worry about authority? Yes, board members decide how the donations are spent. If you don't like that, all you can do is to be a part of changing it. But you can't do that from the outside. |
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I've had several attacks on my Mac mini...not sure if any were successful, but, my Bitcoin funds in my encrypted wallet were just fine.
There are some very important security issues to figure out with Bitcoin. Ideally, clients would be able to employ physical keys that would make an eaves dropper with complete access to all the files on your computer and able to record every keysteoke unable to steal your coins.
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