2013-06-22 Can the Bitcoin Foundation build legitimacy for an outlaw currency?

[erono]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3436984/bitcoin-foundation-legitimacy-and-standardization

Some of the biggest names in the world of Bitcoin, the unregulated virtual currency with a small but devoted user base, are looking to give it a friendlier public face. Announced last week, the Bitcoin Foundation — which counts lead developer Gavin Andresen and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles among its board members — is meant to do for Bitcoin what the Linux Foundation has helped do for open source software, paying selected developers for full-time work and nailing down best practices. In a letter of intent, Executive Director Peter Vessenes said he hoped the Foundation could legitimize Bitcoin through standardization — a legitimacy that’s sorely needed now.

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[empoweoqwj]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3436984/bitcoin-foundation-legitimacy-and-standardization

Some of the biggest names in the world of Bitcoin, the unregulated virtual currency with a small but devoted user base, are looking to give it a friendlier public face. Announced last week, the Bitcoin Foundation — which counts lead developer Gavin Andresen and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles among its board members — is meant to do for Bitcoin what the Linux Foundation has helped do for open source software, paying selected developers for full-time work and nailing down best practices. In a letter of intent, Executive Director Peter Vessenes said he hoped the Foundation could legitimize Bitcoin through standardization — a legitimacy that’s sorely needed now.

When was it outlawed, and in which countries? I must have missed all those announcements.

[JohannSummers]

Strange that the Verge is republishing an article from last October.