The Bitcoin Education Project has developed a free online crowdsourced comprehensive introductory class on Bitcoin for the mainstream. We want to spread this monetary revolution to everyone curious: https://www.udemy.com/bitcoin-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-crypto/Please leave feedback, suggestions and questions. Also if you'd like to volunteer we are looking for people with experience in the following areas: - History of Bitcoin
- Entrepreneurship in the Bitcoin World
- Non-profits and Bitcoin
- The Technology of Bitcoin
- The Economics of Bitcoin
- Graphics and Multimedia
- Multilingual Bitcoiners (especially Chinese)
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Another reason to bring sugar bush to bitcoin:  |
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It's called crowdsourcing and it works. You don't have to follow the advice, but it does give you an idea where common problems are occuring and also great ideas from people who have been in the movement since satoshi.
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Gavin did you guys send out an email to all foundation members soliciting feedback for the agenda?
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I'm a member as well and it's the first I've heard. But there isn't any exclusion at all  |
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The better question is What is YOUR plan to help support the foundation to this end. The foundation is all of us, (or any No bitcoin My plan has always been to unite the veterans of the community together to develop a crowdsourced comprehensive introduction to bitcoin for the mainstream. This should be goal number one for the community. The more people who enter the bitcoin world; the better for everyone. |
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This is nowhere near taking off. If you have retailers all over start taking it the transaction rate will go up 100 or a thousand times or more. You are not going to have that whole system hinge on 1 person. You will have large numbers of paid developers and there will probably be foundations on different continents. Amazon, Microsoft, Paypal, Google and Facebook. Until someone spends the time to seduce them into contributing devs the Foundation will be small. This- alongside my education project- should be the focus of the foundation. They would get dozens of seasoned professional programmers and powerful corporations who are financially tied to the success of Bitcoin. That's called a win win. |
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It’s been an amazing week for the Bitcoin Education Project. Our Bitcoin course has obtained almost 400 subscribers- many from overseas. And we have had an opportunity to meet a lot of the veterans in the Bitcoin community. There is still an enormous amount of work to be done and we need your help.
Let me divide the areas we need assistance into categories:- History of Bitcoin
- Entrepreneurship in the Bitcoin World
- Non-profits and Bitcoin
- The Technology of Bitcoin
- The Economics of Bitcoin
- Graphics and Multimedia
- Multilingual Bitcoiners (especially Chinese)
If you'd like to volunteer your time and serve as either an advisor or even make content, then please PM me- everyone is welcome. The course will always be free and has been released under a creative commons license. I am totally committed to making it better on a daily basis, but I am only one voice and I haven't been here as long as you guys. This effort is our chance to open a gate into the bitcoin world for countless millions making bitcoin the currency of the internet. Thanks all Send Donations to 189tfJJhCJFtkr4MZJgcB3yuGTfUh7cvUL. Proceeds will be used to develop a website and make additional content for the Bitcoin Education Project. |
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Huh. What evidence do you have that the Foundation has been hurting the evolution of Bitcoin?
Because it seems to me things have been going gangbusters since the Foundation was formed (with all the usual chaos and drama).
Or, to be less polite to all the haters: we've all been working our asses off (especially Peter), to make Bitcoin a success. What have you anonymous cowards been doing besides spouting off about things you know NOTHING about? Gavin, I'm a supporter of the foundation and also a member. I really do appreciate the work you and Peter have done for the community and to ensure that our software is ever evolving. I think some of members of this community are just upset- justified or unjustified- with a perception that the foundation has begun excluding certain voices and also supporting concepts like regulation. After events like SOPA and the net neutrality debate, many people dislike the notion that the government should be involved with bitcoin at this juncture. We do concede that the exchanges require regulation and entities like bitpay also should have some sort of oversight, but FINCEN makes all of us a little worried. I would really like more clarity on the media strategy as well as a better notion of what regulation means to the leadership of the foundation. Also it would be nice if we could get someone to approach both amazon and paypal to start hammering out a system to accept bitcoins. This alone would mainstream bitcoin and likely get a commitment from amazon to contribute experienced developers to help you. Also there has been little work broadcasting that bitcoins can really help international charities. For my course, I've approached several people involved with overseas NPOs who accept bitcoins to do guest lectures so we can enhance the positive side of bitcoin instead of the negative side associated with silk road. What is the foundation's plan? |
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Bitcoin is larger, but the person that make the decisions for the bitcoin masses is behind it, so you think people will do there own research? No they will just accept it. It is all about who controls the gateway into the world. What's your area of expertise? I'd like you to record a lecture |
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You do realized they will always be relevant they have a hold on bitcoin, we have to hope they get voted out and new members who can turn the foundation around and actually get things done will succeed. But I doubt Gavin, Charlie, and Mark will give up there powers, and have there employees vote them back in, or put figure heads into power. I really doubt a sub par educational system will bring them down. This is like arguing over who will be head of the free software foundation. Bitcoin is much larger than a single foundation and they are not focusing on the only chokepoint to control it. I'm not worried at all. Whoever controls the gateway into bitcoin land (ie the knowledge required to use bitcoins) controls bitcoin land. I'm slowly bringing the community together behind this concept and if the BTC foundation wants to ignore it, then they will end up as an also ran. I really doubt a sub par educational system will bring them down. You're free at any time to help us. |
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Wait so they have the lead developer of bitcoin, the CEO of Mt Gox, CEO of bitinstant, some other heavy hitters of bitcoins and because they don't like your course (which is below sub par research) they will be irrelevant. I really doubt that, but believe what you want. I love you too gweedo |
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They are not trying to take over anything because they already have. Sorry mate. I haven't thrown in the towel yet. If the foundation doesn't get behind my course, then they will become irrelevant |
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Is there any chance I could be part of a future podcast to discuss the bitcoin education project and our udemy course?
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The privacy policy is an important point. Thank you for mentioning it. Same with the tax status. Do you hade a back ground in this sort of thing? I think we could use someone who knows something about this. The foundation has a lot of work to do in addition to advancing Bitcoin. But bear in mind, the vast majority of the foundation membrrs are just like the members here...except we paid $30 (about 1/3 if what you would pay to join the Linux foundation).
I will put it on the agenda. Many thanks. As long as bg is a member of the foundation, I will continue to stay. He's been one of my best friends here at bitcointalk and a great member of the community. To be honest, I don't think what the foundation has set out to do is easy. They are effectively herding cats on a global scale. |
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Not at those price points.
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Am I mistaken or is somebody playing the semantics card with a person whose relatively straightforward and kind in regard to his recent posts, but is being called out as a tool?
I'm not getting this business practice at all. Somebody link me a memo showing that this is the new norm so I can start calling my custom base and suppliers cocksuckers, for currently I'm not on track to beat last year's sales, down about 66% to date. This is why I'm asking for the thread to be closed. I don't believe anything more productive can be done here. I've stated my opinion and asked my questions. BFL's ceo has come here and given a direct response. You really can't ask for more than that. I wish for the best from BFL and I hope they can deliver what they have promised. |
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his was the same question I was asking a UK based company called cloudhashing.com. They state they bought 6 minirigs and their business model is entirely dependent on whether BFL delivers. They also have a SLA between them and a mining farm within the same city as BFL are (I already expressed that this kind of centralisation is not good). I asked mainly questions to the PR guy of cloudhashing surrounding reliability and fault tolerance as being an area I am well aware of. So basically their answer was that they have no MTBF or MTTF values or documentation and they depend exclusively on BFL parts to service the rigs if there is a fault and to repair them within 24hrs.
This is a direct claim that your company has sold the 1500 GH/s rigs under the preorder model. You can claim it is a lie. It looks to me that you guys were pretty certain in the whole 5 GH/s 5 watt consumption estimate until you learned the hard way that ASIC design doesn't always work the way you'd like. Even if the pre-order claim isn't true, why are you advertising on your site the minirig? https://products.butterflylabs.com/homepage/1500gh-bitcoin-miner.html. We both know it physically can't exist with the power required for the ASICs you are shipping at the end of the month. Thus you somehow have a dramatically more power efficient design in your lab and you're somehow going to release this in a reasonable timeframe? Don't you see how people can get a little POed with these claims? I'm asking you to be a good CEO and do two things. First, white an open letter to your customers whom you've put through hell with persistent delays apologizing and promising to do better. It sucks, but its something you have to do as the leader. You guys dropped the ball. Second, pull the minirig from the market and refund any preorders. You have a legitimate product on the market that holds well against the competition. You'll get to the minirig, but we both know it isn't possible with what you have right now. You guys have done some good work building a real product. The conversation we'd be having if you would have been conservative with release dates and the wattage claims would be nothing but praise for a beautiful and functional product for mainstream miners. You still have an opportunity to get it back on track. Don't waste it. |
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The course is completely free and has been released under a creative commons license.
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