How did this thread get hijacked?  Oh....anarchists....

I pointed Jon Matonis to this thread and asked for comment, as he is a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation

Here's what he said:

I don't think there's anything to get upset about here, just a symbolic move.  Keep in mind The Bitcoin Foundation has no formal standing, it's just a joint effort by early pillars within the community to centralize some of the attention to better address it, and to help target development.   They have no real power besides who their members are and what they voluntarily do (except Gavin, who is paid to develop)

"If bitcoin was so good they would remove the encryption so everyone would know what is going on, it's clearly doomed to fail as everything is encrypted"

I... I...  why do people speak?

I like that idea, but I'd rather cut out all ads to begin with and give the user a better experience. I'm still fine tuning the ideas so I'll take this into consideration though.

Ahh well. When you buy a share it means someone has taken the exact opposite view and sold it to you, there's no value judgement.

But when you ask for opinions and then take umbrage about comments forthcoming, negative remarks from the OP and limp-fisted commentators such as yourself deserve to be lambasted and ridiculed for nativity.

You can fuck off now.

You started the topic seeking the opinions of other people. You need to dial down on the noob and get your shit together - you asked for commentary, you got it. Sure you can disagree, that's only to be expected, but the very least you can be is appreciative that people have commented.

Here's what you wrote: "I'd like to get your feedback on this move away from traditional ads to BTC only donations. What do you think?"

Refer to my specific advertising verses begging comments in the posts above. Maybe if you read and think about them it will help you stop pretending that you are eating dust from the Moon, ok?

what about fate or destiny?

Life doesn't always follow established reasoning...  It is entirely possible that an unknown "tadpole" journalist found the creator of bitcoin.  Life is not controlled by men or an organization; life is divinely scripted.

I find it  strange that a person wich such deep and broad interests is just found on google for fire guns, trains and stupid things on Amazon. Also his english i not good, i don't know how he used to write here on the board(what was his username?) and other non formal means. But the articles could not be writen by him, excepet if someone else was reviewing the text.

it's him.

stop the butthurt.

If they were hacked that means something wasn't working properly (Is this really confirmed?). And obviously they didn't know how to handle bitcoin transactions properly. By no means has there been no problems, even if we ignore poor coding practises.