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Author: Johnny Teatent
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To: System undo crew
Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] Update from The Foundation
splits must happen. there is something big coming next week in the london
protest community (large scale police/coporate infiltration and out of
those ashes i will build a new movement. and hopefully computer guys athat
are a bit from iran and appear on russian state tv might take seriously the
fact that sercuty services *as wells as *trying to creep up electronically
do it IRL too. www.facebook.com/anarchesqueboilerplate


On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Amir Taaki <genjix@???> wrote:

>
> Hey,
>
> Many people are telling me they want to avoid a split within the
> Bitcoin community. But it's happening now.
>
> People are calling for a new organisation that:
>
> - - Promotes Bitcoin as a tool of big social change.
> - - We believe in financial privacy.
> - - We believe in freedom of financial speech (lack of censorship)
>
> Furthermore transparency of governance and openness to the community.
>
> There are several groups now organising and a lot of talk going
> around. But for all the blaa blaa, I have stuff here and now.
>
> Here is an update from the foundation:
>
> https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=204
>
> They list a bunch of non-complete implementations (excluding the
> complete one), and talk about the foundation's conference.
>
> I need help with the conference. I need resources (programmers) for
> libbitcoin.
>
> For the conference, if I don't get help then I will cancel it. I don't
> have the time. Everyone is telling me to do it, but I haven't got
> anyone helping me. I want to focus my efforts on development.
>
> For libbitcoin, I need developers. There are clear business strategies
> here and several people are already offering me resources here. This
> is going forwards. I've spent a long time on this alone, so it's great
> to see finally.
>
> Focus on the projects first, we can make the organisation after. How
> many of you are actually writing code? It's not enough to complain. We
> need to build real things that people will use - that's how our ideas
> will win out.
>
> The same thing happening now happened to the personal computer
> revolution during the 70s. The big corporations moved in, the
> idealistic hackers were working on fun bullshit, they were not vocal
> enough or pragmatic, and they lost out to the suits who just took
> their work, made it practical and got super rich off it. This is the
> time to struggle for your ideals.
>
> I will be so disappointed if the same thing happens again.
>
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