All things considered Brock Pierce, et al.! [w/POLL]

[S4VV4S]

Now this was a very long read and it took a while.
In fact some things I don't even remember BUT......

Isn't the TBF against what SATOSHI was working for?

WE DO NOT need an authority, or some central agency talking on our behalf or representing us.

And say what??
100K for membership?
To what?

I do not even understand the purpose of the TBF nor this thread.
It should have both been non existent.

Excuse my poor knowledge on the subject but from what I understand is that the TBF is completely against what Satoshi was working for.
And that is for people to make their own decisions and take full responsibility of their possessions (Bitcoins).

If people think that they need a centralized (and flawed) agency to be the face of their decentralized currency then I guess they are doing it wrong.

The entire success of Bitcoin is based on the fact that it is not controlled.
The funny thing is that day after day we hear more about businesses, corporations, agencies, organizations, messiahs or whatever they call themselves trying to snatch a big piece of the pie while they still can.

AND WE ARE GIVING IT TO THEM!!!!!!

WTF???

Now here's a question:
What has the TBF done for you?

That being said,
I had not had knowledge of the TBF or what they do prior to Brock's election.
Simply because I didn't care that there was a TBF.
I didn't search for it because I didn't even think there was a need for it. 

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

[JorgeStolfi]

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

Well, if one is arming a scam or has a shady business, being a member of the board of THE Bitcoin Foundation surely helps: makes him appear respectable and authoritative, gives more media exposure, etc..

[S4VV4S]

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

Well, if one is arming a scam or has a shady business, being a member of the board of THE Bitcoin Foundation surely helps: makes him appear respectable and authoritative, gives more media exposure, etc..

That sucks.....

I have a couple of projects I am working on (not scam) regarding Bitcoin.
Does that mean my shit stays in the dark because I didn't pay 100K to have my shit "validated"?

[QuestionAuthority]

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

Well, if one is arming a scam or has a shady business, being a member of the board of THE Bitcoin Foundation surely helps: makes him appear respectable and authoritative, gives more media exposure, etc..

That sucks.....

I have a couple of projects I am working on (not scam) regarding Bitcoin.
Does that mean my shit stays in the dark because I didn't pay 100K to have my shit "validated"?

Yes, most likely you will be less successful without the support of TBF. They seem to be the business tax you have to pay to make money with Bitcoin.

[S4VV4S]

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

Well, if one is arming a scam or has a shady business, being a member of the board of THE Bitcoin Foundation surely helps: makes him appear respectable and authoritative, gives more media exposure, etc..

That sucks.....

I have a couple of projects I am working on (not scam) regarding Bitcoin.
Does that mean my shit stays in the dark because I didn't pay 100K to have my shit "validated"?

Yes, most likely you will be less successful without the support of TBF. They seem to be the business tax you have to pay to make money with Bitcoin.

I hope that, that is not the case but should it be the case then I will release all my work as open source (which was my original plan anyway).

[Phinnaeus Gage]

So can someone explain to me the need of TBF?

Well, if one is arming a scam or has a shady business, being a member of the board of THE Bitcoin Foundation surely helps: makes him appear respectable and authoritative, gives more media exposure, etc..

To better illustrate, a little Horror History is in order: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_in_the_woods





Tell me that doesn't freak you out.

BTW, feel free to use the prime real estate located in the Subject line of every post you pen to relay anything that tickles your fancy. Pass it On!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

^^^ And, if that  doesn't freak you out, try adding this on for size.

[Clegg]

What does Cabin in the Woods have to do with anything? I think you're giving this Brock guy far too much time and effort,

[Phinnaeus Gage]

What does Cabin in the Woods have to do with anything? I think you're giving this Brock guy far too much time and effort,

Just something I found via a bitcoiner (not the one I screenshot, at least I don't think) linked to various others in, or were in the U.S. Navy, that's all. It's amazing the number of people I find associated with this having the same namesake as those in computer sciences - of various degree - in said armed forces. It's almost like if one stumbles across too much information, they're prone to suicide. I'm just saying.

[waldox]

i believe brock pierce/rector is working for the US Gov to co-op the bitcoin movement just like they did with the occupy wallstreet movement, and successfully killed it. he could be blackmailed because of his pedofile history, so the govt can threaten him if he dosnt follow their directives. thats why a lot of politicians are pedofiles or cheat on their wives, its because they can be blackmailed by hidden controllers, then get exposed if they dont follow the plans.

bitcoin foundation has a large influence on bitcoin as they pay several of the lead programmer's salaries who can influence what direction bitcoin goes

[Phinnaeus Gage]

i believe brock pierce/rector is working for the US Gov to co-op the bitcoin movement just like they did with the occupy wallstreet movement, and successfully killed it. he could be blackmailed because of his pedofile history, so the govt can threaten him if he dosnt follow their directives. thats why a lot of politicians are pedofiles or cheat on their wives, its because they can be blackmailed by hidden controllers, then get exposed if they dont follow the plans.

bitcoin foundation has a large influence on bitcoin as they pay several of the lead programmer's salaries who can influence what direction bitcoin goes

You're getting warm!

BTW, has anybody viewed the tx for that $100K USD paid by KnC to TBF to become a Platinum Member yet? Surely, they didn't pay via the ol' fashion way when they have them mega-pharms hashing away - churning out bitcoins on fully operational miners - on Facebook's property, did they?

[TheMage]

i believe brock pierce/rector is working for the US Gov to co-op the bitcoin movement just like they did with the occupy wallstreet movement, and successfully killed it. he could be blackmailed because of his pedofile history, so the govt can threaten him if he dosnt follow their directives. thats why a lot of politicians are pedofiles or cheat on their wives, its because they can be blackmailed by hidden controllers, then get exposed if they dont follow the plans.

bitcoin foundation has a large influence on bitcoin as they pay several of the lead programmer's salaries who can influence what direction bitcoin goes

I was thinking along the same lines......../notinfoilhat

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://ybltv.com/2013/10/michael-terpin-talks-crowdfunding-bitangels-digital-currency-and-more-at-digital-hollywood-fall-2013/

This motherfucker who couldn't even raise $150 for his own crowdfunding campaign, is going around acting the expect on it, meanwhile telling YOU what's best for Bitcoin, especially now that his Boy Toy is chairing TBF.

Madness!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_07/Head-of-Bitcoin-company-in-Singapore-found-dead-in-her-apartment-2989/

Despite the disappointing news, people who knew Radtke claim that her death has nothing to do with her work. Her business partner and entrepreneur, who used to live very close to Radtke, Steve Beauregard stated:

That's odd! According to Steve's brother, John, Steven Beauregard used Autumn Radtke's apartment cum office whenever he was to Singapore away from his loving wife and children. And, why wouldn't he? That's were GoCoin's office was located. Hell, First Meta's CEO is on record in stating that he was on the hunt for cheaper digs to save money.

Looks to me, they're all shady bastards.

BTW, I think I solved why so many Facebook account have wedding pics sans comments. It seems there's a photographer living at Michael Terpin's former address (bedandoffice.com) before he ciphered off funds from various VC to purchase bigger digs. There's even a pic of MT taken by yet-to-named photographer who has a great model portfolio.

You fuckers want to play with peoples lives and livelihoods? Let's play!

Knock! Knock!
Who's there?
Bruce Wag...
Get away from us, you pervert! You're bad news.
But, I brought the Duck and Ed's dance pole.
Well, in that case, come on in. The hot tub's in the other room. Pour yourself some vintage wine.

Who the hell let him into our party.
Dude, he's the one who brought the Duck.
Let's party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

It's time to go to bed when Google starts fuckin' with you.

[JorgeStolfi]

http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_07/Head-of-Bitcoin-company-in-Singapore-found-dead-in-her-apartment-2989/

That article is a bit outdated. It says "in her apartment", but actually her body was found "on the parapet above the refuse dump" of a nearby 24-story apartment building.  It may have been suicide (she lived in a 2-story house), but I haven't seen any guess at what the reasons could be.  Other theories are possible of course.  Who knows...

http://nypost.com/2014/03/06/bitcoin-firm-ceo-jumped-to-her-death-neighbor/
http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/cleaning-supervisor-who-found-body-dead-ceo-there-was-foul-smell

[Phinnaeus Gage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQhCnf-W6Sg&feature=youtu.be

In that video, Brock goes into detail on how he and a partner lost 50,000 BTC, as well as touching base on ExpressCoin. Call me a Crazy Kat, but that sure the hell sounds like what happened to this guy, linking said dude's second post:

Hi everyone. I'd like to share will you all a new site me and my friend have setup. It's called bitcoinexpress and basically it allows you to sell or buy bitcoins with PayPal. Pretty simple eh? Well it is. All you gotta do is register and then you're ready to buy/sell.

We've got thousands of bitcoins to sell.

Our rates are just a tad bit under and over the going market rate listed on the Mt. Gox site.

Minimum bitcoin sell/purchase amount is 10 bitcoins.

Please only VERIFIED PayPal accounts!

To start buying/selling bitcoins with the convenience of PayPal checkout our site here:

http://www.bitcoinexpress.com

If anyone has any questions please feel free to post them here.

We're looking forward to serving the bitcoin community.

Cheers!

[Phinnaeus Gage]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQhCnf-W6Sg&feature=youtu.be

In that video, Brock goes into detail on how he and a partner lost 50,000 BTC, as well as touching base on ExpressCoin. Call me a Crazy Kat, but that sure the hell sounds like what happened to this guy, linking said dude's second post:

Hi everyone. I'd like to share will you all a new site me and my friend have setup. It's called bitcoinexpress and basically it allows you to sell or buy bitcoins with PayPal. Pretty simple eh? Well it is. All you gotta do is register and then you're ready to buy/sell.

We've got thousands of bitcoins to sell.

Our rates are just a tad bit under and over the going market rate listed on the Mt. Gox site.

Minimum bitcoin sell/purchase amount is 10 bitcoins.

Please only VERIFIED PayPal accounts!

To start buying/selling bitcoins with the convenience of PayPal checkout our site here:

http://www.bitcoinexpress.com

If anyone has any questions please feel free to post them here.

We're looking forward to serving the bitcoin community.

Cheers!

Probably not related, but...  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Hoglund

As an author, Hoglund wrote Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Rootkits: Subverting the Windows Kernel and Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems, and was a contributing author on Hack Proofing Your Network: Internet Tradecraft. He was a reviewer for the Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security. He has presented regularly at security conferences such as Black Hat Briefings, DEF CON, DFRWS, FS-ISAC, and RSA Conference, among others. Hoglund drew the attention of the media when he exposed the functionality of Blizzard Entertainment's Warden (software), used to prevent hacking in the popular game World of Warcraft.

Pick one: Payola or sending a message?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Let's explore another address located walking distance from other Bitcoin start-ups - namely, 1351 4th Street, 4th floor, Santa Monica, CA 90401.

http://buzzsparks.org/titan-gaming

Titan Gaming raised $1M in seed round from William Quigley, Jim Armstrong, Brock Pierce, Michael Robertson, Kamran Pourzanjani, Eric Pulier, Jeffrey Tinsley, Wicks Walker, Andrew Frame, John Lee, Andy Mazzarella, Ferry Richard Spitz, Fred Kreuger, Tony Greenberg, Scott Walker, SAM Venture Partners, Carlos Bhola, TomorrowVentures, and Gary Guseinov

http://www.manta.com/c/mm7tnvm/business-rockstars



Here's Ken Rutkowski's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZvjqIU9iODFACTYUPg2xg

https://www.linkedin.com/company/business-rockstars

https://credibility.com/miscellaneous-intermediation/us-ca-santa-monica/clearstone-venture-management-i-llc



https://angel.co/brockpierce



Looks like Brock Pierce left an entity off his portfolio: http://web.archive.org/web/20000621020359/http://www.wwtiv.com/




Hell, it's looks like I have to do the media's job as well: http://www.breakingnewsdir.com/entertainment/old-lawsuit-calls-bryan-singer-accuserx27s-credibility-into-question-h11682.html



http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Melvin-Berman/36706159

Digital Coast Weekly
www.digitalcoastweekly.com [cached]
Melvin Berman , listed as WWTIV's President , is described as a former executive with Creative Artists Agency and a former professional kickboxer.
Management Bios
www.wwtiv.com, 3 Feb 2002 [cached]
Mr. Melvin Berman, President - Prior to serving in his capacity as President of World Wide Technology & Internet Ventures Limited, B.V.I.Mr. Berman held a number of management positions in companies as diverse as Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Asian Trading companies and import/export companies.He is mult-lingual (English, Spanish, Chinese, Farsi) and was a law student at the University Of Southern California (USC).In his youth he was also a ranked professional kickboxer on the world circuit.He is now the President and one of the Founders and Associates of World Wide Technology & Internet Ventures Limited, B.V.I. (http://www.wwtiv.com/).

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://www.internships.com/marketing/Marketing-Copywriting-Editing-Product-Creation-Intern?src=1&utm_campaign=GAtest&utm_medium=TW&utm_source=JC

Info on Business Rockstars below.

Business Rockstars launched in May 2012 on KFWB 980 (CBS) Los Angeles. The show is on 2:00-4:00 daily, M-F and focuses on Entrepreneurial Business. Business Rockstars brings together some of the world's biggest and most successful CEO's as well as successful small business owners. There are also some very cool segments within the show...."Speed to Cool", "Show me the Money", and The Foundation Room where we build a business from scratch in a week, on-air.

Some of the Rockstar guests have included; Nolan Bushnell (founder Attari & Chucky Cheese), Michael Robertson (mp3.com), Mark Verge (CEO Santa Anita Park) Cheryl Tiegs (Celebrity Apprentice, Business woman) Scott Painter (True Car, Cars Direct) Brock Pierce (Founder Internet Gaming Entertainment, William Quigley (partner ClearStone Ventures), Heinrich Fisker (Fisker Automotive)..... and others.

KFWB is the flagship station for the future launch of a Radio Network. Business Rockstars partner, Steve Lehman, was the founder and former
Chairman / CEO of Premiere Radio Networks, the largest Radio Network in the US.

Business Rockstars is designed for multi-platform content distribution. Our new location will be outfitted with 3 video cameras for streaming video content. Ken was formerly the technology host for CNET, and has appeared on CNBC, and FOX. Our Voice-Over announcer for the show is Joe Cipriano, voice of FOX and CBS.

Business rockstars has a great strategic tie in with Entrepreneur Magazine and will be broadcasting the Entrepreneur of the year awards live from Dallas. Additionally working with Entrepreneur on their Franchise 500 issue. We are going to give away a franchise on the air.

Info on Business Rockstars below.

Joshua Wenner
1351 4th St. #4
Santa Monica, CA. 90401

All in the same office.

https://angel.co/joshua-wenner

Accelerated Business Growth (Strategist, Entrepreneur, Executive, Advisor, & Investor) Sales Trainer & Speaker For Anthony Robbins