Hi Jack,
> The main purpose of this Fund is to defend developers from lawsuits regarding
>their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including finding and retaining
>defense counsel, developing litigation strategy, and paying legal bills. This
>is a free and voluntary option for developers to
Hi Prayank,
> On 13 Jan 2022, at 10:13, Prayank wrote:
> I had few suggestions and feel free to ignore them if they do not make sense:
>
> 1.Name of this fund could be anything and 'The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund'
> can be confusing or misleading for newbies. There is nothing official in
> Bit
I think the word "The" is important. The title of the email and the name of
the fund is Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund. It is "a" legal defense fund; not
THE Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund. There is room for other funds and
strategies and anyone is welcome to create alternatives.
I also don't see why Alex
A further point -- were it to be a norm if a contributor to something like
this be denied their full capacity for "free speech" by social convention,
it would either encourage anonymous funding (less accountable) or would
disincentivize creating such initiatives in the future.
Both of those outcom
> I also don't see why Alex or anyone should be denied the opportunity to
comment on future soft forks or anything about bitcoin. Alex should have no
more or less right to participate and his comments should be judged on
their merit, just like yours and mine.
I think the concern is something like:
To belatedly answer Rene's question:
Yes, we hope so. To start, the Fund will focus on the defense of the
pending litigation and new litigation that may arise. However, we intend to
build up the capacity to provide competent third-party advice to developers
on strategies to reduce their liability.
That's a good point. Agree!
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 10:54 AM Alex Schoof wrote:
> > I also don't see why Alex or anyone should be denied the opportunity to
> comment on future soft forks or anything about bitcoin. Alex should have no
> more or less right to participate and his comments should be
> One question I have is how you might describe the differences between
what BLDF can accomplish and what e.g. EFF can accomplish. Having been
represented by the EFF on more than one occasion, they are fantastic. Do
you feel that the Bitcoin-specific focus of BLDF outweighs the more general
(but de
Devs,
This email is primarily about existing wallet behaviors and user
preferences, and not about CTV. However, towards the end I will describe
the relevance of CTV, but the email is worth reading even if you have no
interest in CTV as the problems described exist today.
One point of confusion I'
