Tell me you're joking. Really. GTFO.
This goes against everything bitcoin stands for.
Tell me you are fucking not serious.
Agreed! Don't even agree with tossing the idea around in your head. It's a bad decision that completely undermines the entire concept.
@ OP: There will always be greedy individuals or groups looking to gain control whenever power or money (I know...they're one and the same) is involved. That's one truth that will remain until the end of time.
The best way to ensure this never happens (IMHO) is to allow multiple currencies to flourish. It seems that already there's a segment of the community with an elitist attitude. I've only been here about 2 weeks and already found a large portion of bitcoin supporters who thumb their nose to other currencies, but in all honesty I see no other way to fulfill the "free-economy" ideal.
The very idea of bitcoin being THE one and only worldwide currency is the most dangerous and destructive scenario I could imagine. Not only would it become exactly what it's meant to destroy, it would be the worst and most powerful form of it that ever existed in the history of man.
I don't think most people can even grasp just how dangerous a game we're all playing here. People are only looking at the good bitcoin could do. For all the incredible good bitcoin (or something like it) could do in the benefit mankind, it could be equally damaging and destructive. As with all power, it can be used for good or for evil in equal measurements!
Freedom is nothing to take lightly. It's extremely fragile, everyone choosing to have it must fight with passion to keep it! Here in America, our Forefathers understood this perfectly, they were willing to offer their lives for it. Today we've regrettably forgotten!
Digital Doom did you even read anything I posted? If you did you would know the notion isn't for some kind of central group to control everything. However with increased cost of hardware and time, miners will become serious businesses, and have a vested interest in the decisions of Bitcoin Foundation overall going forward. Something to consider. I am not a BF member so I really have no idea what occurs there on the mining side of things or how decisions are made. So far there is no reason to question it. Overall it probably is a terrible idea and at this point certainly not necessary, and against the Bitcoin ethos.
As noted, I agree that keeping Bitcoin decentralized as much as possible is a crucial ingredient for its overall success. Too much control from any one area could be fatal, as our current financial hellhole is evidence of already.
HOWEVER
Again this is just a discussion based on a graphic I created just for fun for fellow miners, I have no intent to start or manage any such organization, though I am thinking of creating a new mining
community site and news blog as I havn't seen any like that yet out there. So chillax
In reality cryptominers are the new gold rushers, you have to bring your own mining equipment yourself and bore the all the risks of it as the gamble that it is and accept the parameters the mothership gives us to do so, and have a chance to strike it rich. I can however see a day somewhere when miners will have words about transaction fees when it really starts to matter as less and less Bitcoins are forged, but a distant future issue if it would become one at all.
Forget the serious side of making some sort of union or 'voice'...
...and stick with making cool illustrations for mining *ahem* guilds or clans akin to PC and Console gamers.
I'm more than happy to do that, I wasn't trying to start an open revolt here, just thought it might be a worthy discussion following *for fun* design work. I think Im going to cap this thread and start a new one for just the graphics without the rest
