Forking this from here:
What if we actually didn't need any pyramidal politically fucked-up foundation, and just BTC-crowd-funded any need to hire honest lawyers/developers/senators/head-hunters/etc. ?
The wonderful part about Bitcoin is that you can do whatever you want, just because this is the first bitcoin foundation doesn't mean it will or should be the only one. The people who make up the foundation think this is the way to go about it, and they've put their money where their mouths are. I genuinely encourage you to set up a bounty-only Bitcoin foundation, I would happily be a member of that one too and help in any way I could.
First, I'm sorry this little rant of mine caused the original thread to derail a bit.
Then, To answer to mindtomatter, I'm have no precise idea about the way it could be handled.
But ideally, it would help cover needs ranging from:
- Funding lawyers to help an important BTC actor against a government complaint.
- Helping a small willing merchant to accept BTC instead of stinky bills.
- Funding charismatic spokesmen to go spread the BTC idea in decisive meetings/conferences.
- Funding a teacher who would locally organize (free) training sessions so people understand the basics
- Funding scam-busters to keep the bitcoin users safe and help spreading the idea bitcoin is much harder to steal than FIAT
- etc.
I'm not sure how it should be presented. Maybe a mix between bounty and pre-crowd-funding.
But I know I'd much rather have the possibility to give or get a few tips for organizing local training sessions, while having the power to help renting the best lawyers services in case governments start a war on bitcoin.
I just
don't want a couple shady people who hate and try to double-cross each other to take those decisions for me, using coins I would have sent them in hope they "represent" me.
Bitcoin allows me to easily "upvote" the actions I consider important, I just lack the informative platform that would help me being aware in an easily digestible way. The best I found so far is this forum, but you have to read 1000 useless posts (which I admit producing, too) before you find one good initiative.
Maybe a good start would just be to have a visible "Help Bitcoin" sub here, regrouping all the actions people are taking, including the BF.