It's official! The Bitcoin Foundation has an accused pedophile on its board.

[miffman]

It just shows how even though we all try to be independent and corruption-free, things like this happen. Even though it still isn't confirmed, the rumour is out

[kuroman]

wow just wow, I guess detective Phinnaeus Gage at it again, I do understand that he should not be accused for such a thing unless proven guilty but from a reputation stand point, associating someone with such a bad reputation to the bitcoin fondation is not a good thing, I don't believe this is the kind of thing bitcoin needs right now. I guess money speaks here more than anything

[Phinnaeus Gage]

And this is relevant to their ability to do their job for Bitcoin, how?

I don't give a damn about people's sex life, I'll leave that to the courts.

"And, this is relevant to your priest's ability to save souls, how?

Now, you tell me how a bright 17-year-old heterosexual kid not report to the police a 30-something-year-man fucking his 16-year-old boyfriend in a house they all share... a party house, I may add, known in the Hollywood circles where drugs and sex with underage boys run rampant.

I see how I came I your radar: [FUD] Mt. Gox CEO confess(in other words) to be bankrupt / insolvent

Fuck you for wasting my time, OP.

+100

Fuck you, OP, for wasting Beliathon's time.

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BUT NOT MINE! Thanks, bud.

~Bruno Kucinskas

[Phinnaeus Gage]

MOE-PR was banned soon after calling them out.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=498002.0

...but please bear in mind that I'm a pretty straight-up guy.

And has been for years. Detective Bruno can make connections like no one else. Although I admit to not always having the insight to see them myself!

Hell, it's worst than that! Sometimes I don't see the connections after I pen stuff.  

[Phinnaeus Gage]

"accused"?

Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Until then STFU.

Not sure if the following will resonate with you...

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140210.html

This is probably worse news than most of us expected. Not only are they not resuming withdrawls, they are claiming it is because of basic flaw in the bitcoin protocol.

If it's not true, it's still some really bad press. 

If it is true, then will hurt the confidence of BTC in the short-term, and the price of course.

This was posted below that the flaw has been discussed elsewhere recently:

https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03890.html

...but, in the same vein, we're talking about perception.

Would you let your children play in your neighbor's yard if he just got outta jail for ONLY being accused of pedophilia, or would let them play, defending your actions to your other neighbors via, "He was only accused! Until he's convicted, STFU and let my children play inside and outside his home!"

[calmindifference]

Even associating with convicted paedos is bad enough. It's another nail in the coffin of Bitcoin foundation credibility. Thank you for bringing into public view.

[madmadmax]

"accused"?

Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Until then STFU.

Not sure if the following will resonate with you...

https://www.mtgox.com/press_release_20140210.html

This is probably worse news than most of us expected. Not only are they not resuming withdrawls, they are claiming it is because of basic flaw in the bitcoin protocol.

If it's not true, it's still some really bad press.  

If it is true, then will hurt the confidence of BTC in the short-term, and the price of course.

This was posted below that the flaw has been discussed elsewhere recently:

https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03890.html

...but, in the same vein, we're talking about perception.

Would you let your children play in your neighbor's yard if he just got outta jail for ONLY being accused of pedophilia, or would let them play, defending your actions to your other neighbors via, "He was only accused! Until he's convicted, STFU and let my children play inside and outside his home!"

I probably would unless he admitted to liking "boys" and being a pervert homosexual that frequents male prostitutes that he likes to abuse (and a dumbass).

Judge people by their actions, not accusations of the state.

[RawDog]

"accused"?
Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Phinnaeus Gage is also an accused pedophile.  Don't believe a word he says.  And certainly don't let your kids near him.

[Carlton Banks]

What sort of innocent victim of bogus allegations moves house to Spain with the co-defendants, whereupon one co-defendant is accused of child rape, again? Pierce is at a minimum stupid and trusting (sounds very unlikely), and at worst complicit (if not outright guilty).

Can only echo Bruno's original thread: have the bitcoin foundation actually lost their minds? Who at the bitcoin foundation made the decision to allow this guy on the voting ballot?

[madmadmax]

"accused"?
Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Phinnaeus Gage is also an accused pedophile.  Don't believe a word he says.  And certainly don't let your kids near him.

The above person is an accused dumbass as it is evident by his signature, please disregard any posts and/or financial advice he might give you.

Also, RAWWWDOOOOGGG, providing the #1 source of news in the wastes AWWAWWWAWWWAWWOOOOOO.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

"accused"?
Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Phinnaeus Gage is also an accused pedophile.  Don't believe a word he says.  And certainly don't let your kids near him.

Look here, bud! If I told you once, I told you a thousands times, I don't have a clue as to how your underage son's underwear got into my barn wood warehouse. Are you sure you didn't drop them the time you visited to do you-know-what? Please, please, please consider that possibility. BTW, did your son like the Christmas present I got for him?

[phillipsjk]

Would you let your children play in your neighbor's yard if he just got outta jail for ONLY being accused of pedophilia, or would let them play, defending your actions to your other neighbors via, "He was only accused! Until he's convicted, STFU and let my children play inside and outside his home!"

The laws around pedophilia are messed up.

However, it is not the case, at least in Canada, that child porn is illegal because its production is thought to harm children. Maybe that would be a sensible reason for it to be illegal, but the law isn't always sensible. R. v. Sharpe made it very clear that in Canada, child porn is illegal because people think that looking at it harms the person looking (by reinforcing "cognitive distortions") - whether anyone was harmed to produce it or not. Maybe you don't "buy" that justification - I don't, myself - but it is the reason for the current law whether you and I buy it or not.

If you read R. v. Sharpe carefully, you may notice something else interesting: the Court didn't even write that they think looking at child porn stimulates people to commit crimes. They wrote that Canadian society thinks that looking at child porn stimulates people to commit crimes, and just because Canadian society thinks so - and despite the evidence the Court heard that it isn't actually true - it becomes the basis for the law.

- In comments of "What Colour are your bits?"
In reference to: R. v. Sharpe

Pedophilia in itself does not directly harm children. Acting on those feelings may harm children.

In popular usage, the word pedophilia is often incorrectly used to mean any sexual interest in children or the act of child sexual abuse.[3][6][7][8] For example, The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary states, "Pedophilia is the act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children."[9] This common use sometimes conflates the sexual interest in and sexual contact with pubescent or post-pubescent minors.[10][11] Researchers recommend that these imprecise uses be avoided because although people who commit child sexual abuse sometimes exhibit the disorder,[6][12][13] many child sexual abuse offenders do not meet the clinical diagnosis standards for pedophilia and these standards pertain to prepubescents.[10][14][15]

- Wikipedia article on Pedophilia

I don't have any children myself, but to answer your question, I think I would consider allowing my children to play in the yard of an accused pedophile. However, I would take precautions such as making sure that the neighbor in question is never alone with the children. Children should also be informed that they should tell an adult if they are forced to do something that makes them uncomfortable. This is important because abusers are likely to be someone the child knows; rather than the "strangers" children are taught to be so wary of.

[leopard2]

We need a Bitcoin Community Self-Laceration subsection. 

[QuestionAuthority]

"accused"?
Let me know when he is convicted of something.

Phinnaeus Gage is also an accused pedophile.  Don't believe a word he says.  And certainly don't let your kids near him.

Look here, bud! If I told you once, I told you a thousands times, I don't have a clue as to how your underage son's underwear got into my barn wood warehouse. Are you sure you didn't drop them the time you visited to do you-know-what? Please, please, please consider that possibility. BTW, did your son like the Christmas present I got for him?

You're in rare form today. This thread is some funny shit.

I would keep my kid out of the yard of anyone even accused of butt buggering a kid. If he's innocent keeping the kid away will do no harm. If he's guilty keeping him away will ensure the kids asshole stays the same size and his mind isn't fucked for life. How can any of you want even an accused pedo in any position at the foundation? If you're innocent get an attorney, counter sue and clear your name but don't run to Spain with your perv friends.

[Beliathon]

Would you let your children play in your neighbor's yard if he just got outta jail for ONLY being accused of pedophilia, or would let them play, defending your actions to your other neighbors via, "He was only accused! Until he's convicted, STFU and let my children play inside and outside his home!"

What the fuck ever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?

If you spread all this bullshit before anyone is convicted of anything, you're just as bad as the mainstream media who attacked Dorian.

Also, where the hell have you been? Demonizing threats to the status quo by calling them sexual deviants is an age old trick of the power elite. See Julian Assange.

Let that sink in for a little while.

[madmadmax]

Would you let your children play in your neighbor's yard if he just got outta jail for ONLY being accused of pedophilia, or would let them play, defending your actions to your other neighbors via, "He was only accused! Until he's convicted, STFU and let my children play inside and outside his home!"

What the fuck ever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?

If you spread all this bullshit before anyone is convicted of anything, you're just as bad as the mainstream media who attacked Dorian.

Also, where the hell have you been? Demonizing threats to the status quo by calling them sexual deviants is an age old trick of the power elite. See Julian Assange.

Let that sink in for a little while.

I mean c'mon.

Innocent until proven guilty would apply if the guy wasn't a homosexual, with a shady record of talking about renting abused "boys" on forums and he didn't move to Spain with a convicted pedophile after being accused.

[jjdub7]

Time to give it a rest.  The voters voted.  It is settled.  More people believe in him than believe in you.  You pedophile.  

I didn't vote.  Nor did most of the people on this forum.  Ergo, the Bitcoin Foundation can go fuck itself because the last thing I want to pretend to need is the centralization of representation.

[Beliathon]

Innocent until proven guilty would apply if the guy wasn't a homosexual, with a shady record of talking about renting abused "boys" on forums and he didn't move to Spain with a convicted pedophile after being accused.

Look, that's capitalism. You need to accept sex-slavery and wage-slavery, exploitation, poverty, war for profit, etc if you're going to accept capitalism.

If you want to join me in the ranks of anti-capialists, that's one thing. But if you like Bitcoin and "markets", you implicitly accept exploitation and sex-slavery. Sorry for having to be the one to burst your bubble.

P.S.
Age of consent in most non-puritan-hangover places in the world (ie outside the US) is almost universally 14-16.

[madmadmax]

Innocent until proven guilty would apply if the guy wasn't a homosexual, with a shady record of talking about renting abused "boys" on forums and he didn't move to Spain with a convicted pedophile after being accused.

Look, that's capitalism. You need to accept sex-slavery and wage-slavery, exploitation, poverty, war for profit, etc if you're going to accept capitalism.

If you want to join me in the ranks of anti-capialists, that's one thing. But if you like Bitcoin and "markets", you implicitly accept exploitation and sex-slavery. Sorry for having to be the one to burst your bubble.

P.S.
Age of consent in most non-puritan-hangover places in the world (ie outside the US) is almost universally 14-16.

Not in Thailand, where a 14-16 boy would be illegal.

I do agree with you, exploitation and sex-slavery are inevitable, but so is catching pedophiles and hitting them with a rubber dildo on the head or perhaps even killing them for entertainment.

I don't see what would stop you from offering pedophilia society cleansing services while making plenty of money from donations, sponsors etc in an anarcho-capitalistic society.

The whole beauty of anarcho-capitalism is that you can either advance or degenerate at your own will.

[Beliathon]

The whole beauty of anarcho-capitalism is that you can either advance or degenerate at your own will.

"Anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron. Even in a stateless society, markets imply coercion, deception, and violence. Real anarchists don't like these things.

A real anarcho-capitalistic society would look a lot like modern Somalia. Goddamn libertarians and their utopian capitalist pipedream myths.

Learn the basics of anarchism here: http://www.infoshop.org/AnAnarchistFAQ