Proposal: UK Bitcoin Trade Association

[grifferz]

I am interested in supporting this effort.

A web site, wiki and IRC channel seem appropriate. A forum perhaps less so. Consider getting a regional subforum on bitcointalk?

[franky1]

great.

i think the idea of personal bounties works better then a community pot. so please make that the aim of the job/tasks section.

after all ever since uk government stopped directly funding road repairs/filling pot holes using taxdisk money. or paying benefits from NI contributions. but instead throwing it all into one pot to make it unauditable. our country has now gone down the toilet.

i prefer the system that people who want to use a car, pay to keep the roads flat via the taxdisk bounty going direct to repair work. instead of going towards camerons 2nd mortgage.

i only thought of the forum structure as it does not involve a centralised person uploading every new fact or detail/moderating each upload. a script could be added to an forum code to auto moderate posts. also the forum structure can be split into categories (topics).

but i do think forums dont look official/professional,..

so its just an idea

feel free to PM me to get my skype if you want to have more detailed discussion of the basic outlay to make it as decentralised and micromanaged as possible

[xDan]

I have nothing useful to contribute, but +1 for good idea.

[dave3k]

Might be worth separating webpage (pro) and forum (brainstorming etc.)

I have setup a basic forum as a start if this helps. https://moot.it/bitcoinuk

If anyone has more knowledge in forum setup,
Feel free to set up a better one, this is just so we have a real starting point.

[franky1]

Might be worth separating webpage (pro) and forum (brainstorming etc.)

I have setup a basic forum as a start if this helps. https://moot.it/bitcoinuk

If anyone has more knowledge in forum setup,
Feel free to set up a better one, this is just so we have a real starting point.

thats the kind of what idea i had in my head just needs a professional look to it but it covers all the basics

[dave3k]

Might be worth separating webpage (pro) and forum (brainstorming etc.)

I have setup a basic forum as a start if this helps. https://moot.it/bitcoinuk

If anyone has more knowledge in forum setup,
Feel free to set up a better one, this is just so we have a real starting point.

thats the kind of what idea i had in my head just needs a professional look to it but it covers all the basics

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[Boris-The-Blade]

You get my vote +1

[blatchcorn]

Sounds like a great idea.  There definitely needs to be a clearer division among labour in the Bitcoin community in technical, marketing and legal, where there seems to be an absence of the latter.

[Asrael999]

don't know if you guys are the guys behind this - but this group has recently formed. I am seeking to join them.

http://www.digitalcurrencyassociation.org.uk/

[franky1]

don't know if you guys are the guys behind this - but this group has recently formed. I am seeking to join them.

http://www.digitalcurrencyassociation.org.uk/

no, i dont think this is anyone in this topic. but what i have seen already is that the people that are part of that website are glory hounds. for example, the HMRC already were looking into bitcoin for 2 years. i was even informed of the (at the time unofficial) plan/theory they had to categorize bitcoin in relation to tax this time last year. yet the association have kind of hyped the HMRC announcement, as being done due to them.

im all for people talking to HMRC but when they pretend to be doing the hard work of others, then i start to wonder if they are worth paying a membership fee.

i personally would rather people just do the work and get paid a bounty for doing it. rather then accepting a wage and twist all news related to bitcoin UK, to be done by them.

i am at the moment in a holding pattern to see what the next plan the DCA have, and to see what news they report as being done by them is actually done by them.

we dont want a dozen coders saying they are going to be involved with legal or media projects. so i hope DCA has proper expertise in all area's

what we dont want is to be paying for a group of guys that dont work. and letting others that do work to go unheard and unrewarded. so im not going to join the DCA at this point as i dont see them doing much/anything to improve the UK bitcoin ecosphere.

pretenders taking the glory will hurt bitcoins integrity and perception, we definetly dont want to ruin bitcoins potential for mainstream

i think the DCA need to atleast disclose all their board/employee's along with the expertise they have and a list of current projects, rather then board "subjects" they wish to cover

[Onar]

In general if this would work, the people that lobby must me the same in course of time. If as someone mentioned people can create projects and members fundraise there would be different persons all the time confronting the government, Often with different ideas. In general a organisation, sentralised or desentrilized needs to organisation members that are in the seats over time. unless it just will not seem professionally in the eyes of the authorities and the organisation will be one between many 2ideal organisation" that never get recognition or power.

I belive in the desentilized currency, but not in desentrilized organisations working for the coin should be public accepted. It would be a rope with many ends and everyone pulls in different directions. With this there will never be any affecting big results. Its just the way it is....