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Comment by pstrateman

The Bitcoin Foundation was founded and operated by criminals.

Bruce Fenton and others have done huge amounts of work to repair the foundation and I commend them for their efforts.

However I cannot support an organization which continues to support bad actors, to quote myself:

>As a lifetime Foundation member (and a technical contributor to Bitcoin) I think it's within my rights to ask [that Gavin Andresen be removed as chief scientist]

>Consider how frustrating misunderstandings like the below are to me:

>“...[Gavin Andresen is] still bitcoin’s official chief scientist, according to the Bitcoin Foundation, the not-for-profit that oversees the project...”

>http://www.wired.com/2015/08/bitcoin-schism-shows-genius-ope...

parent pstrateman 11 years ago

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