Interviews for Bitcoin Magazine

[shad0wbitz]

Roberto Gutierrez from AurumExchange. Often overlooked in the Bitcoin arena, he has been in the e-currency industry forever and has a lot of knowledge about the industry. Plus, I think he showed commitment to the Bitcoin community (and balls lol) by setting the Bitcoinica situation straight. Not a single penny would have been recovered without his post.

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[kjlimo]

I didn't read the whole forum yet, but where's Mike Caldwell's name?  He's the owner of https://www.casascius.com/.  I've heard him interviewed before and think he would love to know more about his involvement with bitcoin (more than just his coins).

EDIT: I just went back out to his website.  I'd be curious how much he's made with his Casascius business so far; how much volume he's getting still. 

I'm sure you could make enough questions for an interview.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I adjusted the list. Would make a fine cover story for Bitcoin Magazine's final issue. (rumor started here)

This thread will garner individual names for prospects we would like to see interviewed for inclusion in subsequent Bitcoin Magazine issues.

To get the ball a rollin', I'll start and maintain a list so that Matthew, et al., could have a handy place to view the notables. The names will be linked to some webpage to get the editor's created juices a flowin'. As time goes on, I may reshuffle the list, having names gravitate to the top if intense interest ensues.

Needless to say, any suggested names should be connected with BTCitcoin in some way or fashion but, of course, cryptographist may also be considered. I feel that including Satoshi Nakamoto to the list would serve no real world purpose. I hope you understand.

• knightmb

• Satoshi Nakamoto
• Paco Ahlgren
• Boris Reitman
• Mark Edge and Ian Freeman
• Jon Matonis
• "DPR" From SR (reason for strikethrough)
• IAmA
• Erik Voorhees
• Julian Assange
• Some/any notorious hacker.
• Any US Government or FBI/CIA official.
• Stephen Gornick
• Gavin Andresen
• theymos  
• Amir Taaki
• Ben Reeves
• Mark Karpeles
• Tony Gallippi
• Roger Ver
• Charlie Shrem
• Gareth Nelson
• Any of the core devs.
• Any merchant who has had success in dealing with bitcoin.
• Representative from a major bank, or from SWIFT
• Luke-Jr.
• http://mezegrill.com/our-team.html
• GLBSE  ~ Nefario
• Butterfly Labs
• That Alpaca Sock Guy/Family (where are they now?)
• Stefan Molyneux
• laszlo
• Peter Schiff
• Marc Faber
• Jim Rogers
• Ron Paul
• Cenk Uygur
• Donal O'Mahony
• Michael Peirce (Peirce?)
• Hitesh Tewari
• Michael Clear
• Rick Falkvinge
• Air VPN
• TorGuard
• Pirateat40
• botnet operator
• sirius-m
• Jimmy Wales
• tcatm
• amiller
• copumpkin
• Mike Masnick
• Charlie Sheen
• ThomasV
• Bill Gates
• Detlev Schlichter
• gigavps
• imsaguy
• nanotube
• Ben Bernanke
• Tom (or Ted) Williams

What name would you like to see on the list?

Feel free to provide me better links for the above names, sans theymos's.

~Bruno~

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[World]

Trace Mayer is a very educated man and very well understood BTC

[Yankee (BitInstant)]

Roberto Gutierrez from AurumExchange. Often overlooked in the Bitcoin arena, he has been in the e-currency industry forever and has a lot of knowledge about the industry. Plus, I think he showed commitment to the Bitcoin community (and balls lol) by setting the Bitcoinica situation straight. Not a single penny would have been recovered without his post.

I cannot stress how much I agree with this.

Roberto and I, regardless being straight up competitors, have been doing business together since BitInstant entered the Bitcoin space 2 years ago.

Knowing almost everyone in the Bitcoin community, I would say Roberto is in my top 10 people I trust. He is directly responsible for keeping BitInstant running in times of crisis on more then one occasion.
Even though there was obvious monetary gain for us going down, Roberto did everything in his power to keep us up. I can't get into details, but he has taking large financial risk as well.
When BitInstant first opened, there was a small miscommunication btwn him and myself. He could easily have accused us, ect. but decided to take the high road by giving us benefit of the doubt before coming on these forums.

We probably speak at least twice a week, and our businesses rely on each other. I plan on further integrating BitInstant and AurumXChange together.

Finally, regarding the Bitcoinica fiasco: Roberto, Mark and myself did an internal investigation together as most of you know. The ethical behavior Roberto showed during the process was something not expected.

Roberto is a pillar of the Bitcoin community, and we should all cherish his presence.

-Charlie

[Kluge]

• knightmb

Look for it within two issues.   

[flix]

Pres of Mises Institute, Doug French (see this article on Bitcoin):
http://lfb.org/today/currencies-of-the-future/

Also it would be interesting to interview those involved with previous failed experiments in alternative currencies, to see the pitfalls and dangers that could affect Bitcoin in the future.
Eg:

Douglas Jackson (e-gold) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
Eric M. Jackson (author of "The Paypal Wars") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars
Bernard v. Nothaus (Liberty Dollar) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Pres of Mises Institute, Doug French (see this article on Bitcoin):
http://lfb.org/today/currencies-of-the-future/

Also it would be interesting to interview those involved with previous failed experiments in alternative currencies, to see the pitfalls and dangers that could affect Bitcoin in the future.
Eg:

Douglas Jackson (e-gold) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
Eric M. Jackson (author of "The Paypal Wars") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_PayPal_Wars
Bernard v. Nothaus (Liberty Dollar) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar

Too bad he's no longer with us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Digital_Monetary_Trust

But I'm willing to bet that Sonny Vleisides has personally met JOG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Orlin_Grabbe#Laissez_Faire_City_Times

[Seal]

Kim Dotcom

[Garr255]

Kim Dotcom

Yes. Haha, I'd love to talk to (or even hang out with) that guy

[Seal]

Kim Dotcom

Yes. Haha, I'd love to talk to (or even hang out with) that guy

Apparently he's very hospitable if you twitter him and tell him you live close by. I'm sure there are stories of him inviting random's over for drinks and a swim in his pool.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

A Wordpress rep, and consider giving them cover coverage.

[World]

Hal Finney ,
he made the first transaction together with Satoshi
http://www.blogger.com/profile/03982492169754485098
http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.be/2011/01/first-bitcoins-ever-spent.html

[Vitalik Buterin]

A Wordpress rep, and consider giving them cover coverage.

We tried. They said that they're not ready to give an interview yet. Not that we won't ask again later on, of course

And they have cover coverage on #5 anyway.

[World]

Hal Finney ,
he made the first transaction together with Satoshi
http://www.blogger.com/profile/03982492169754485098
http://bitcoinreport.blogspot.be/2011/01/first-bitcoins-ever-spent.html

It would be very interesting to read more about this transaction and Hal Finney in Bitcoin Magazine.This guy deserves it.
Any chances of success?

[Deafboy]

Now when Giga is one of the owners of magazine, he should interview himself

[kwoody]

Billy Cosby.
No, really, Bill Cosby. If anybody is to understand the delicate intricacies of Bitcoin, it would be the jell-o dealer himself.
Also, I find it comforting to hear the voice of passive non-hostile black men. Kinda like Morgan Freeman.
Or the Allstate Insurance guy.

I demand the ability to purchase jell-o with bitcoin. Make it happen, Cosby.

[LightRider]

Vladamir. I'm sure he would love to talk to you guys.