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From: qmccormick13 <qmccormick13@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:18:40 +0100
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Cc: Prayank <prayank@tutanota.de>, info@bitcoindefensefund.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
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I very much hope the fund will not finance lawsuits irrelevant to bitcoin.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 5:23 PM Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> (P2P?) Electronic Cash (Defense?) Fund or Electronic Cash Foundation ?
> More neutral, potentially covering others than Bitcoin, mimicking a bit
> EFF (even if as stated US is not the only target), referring to
> Satoshi's paper where everything started
>
> Maybe I am not up to date but it would be good to know what are the
> current procedures with the Tulip thing
>
> Aymeric
>
>
> Le 13/01/2022 =C3=A0 19:20, jack via bitcoin-dev a =C3=A9crit :
> > Hi Prayank,
> >
> >> On 13 Jan 2022, at 10:13, Prayank <prayank@tutanota.de> 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 offici=
al
> in Bitcoin however people believe things written in news articles and som=
e
> of them might consider it as an official bitcoin legal fund.
> > Excellent point. Will come up with a better name.
> >
> >> 2.It would be better if people involved in such important funds do not
> comment/influence soft fork related discussions. Example: Alex Morcos had
> some opinions about activation mechanism during Taproot soft fork IIRC.
> > Yes. Will think through this and board operating principles we can shar=
e
> publicly, which would probably include criteria for how cases are chosen,
> to protect against this board and fund influencing direction.
> >
> > Open to ideas and suggestions on all.
> >
> > jack
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> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
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<div dir=3D"ltr">I very much hope the fund will not finance lawsuits irrele=
vant to bitcoin. <br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" =
class=3D"gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 5:23 PM Aymeric Vitte via bitc=
oin-dev &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoi=
n-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=
=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rg=
b(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(P2P?) Electronic Cash (Defense?) Fund or =
Electronic Cash Foundation ?<br>
More neutral, potentially covering others than Bitcoin, mimicking a bit<br>
EFF (even if as stated US is not the only target), referring to<br>
Satoshi&#39;s paper where everything started<br>
<br>
Maybe I am not up to date but it would be good to know what are the<br>
current procedures with the Tulip thing<br>
<br>
Aymeric<br>
<br>
<br>
Le 13/01/2022 =C3=A0 19:20, jack via bitcoin-dev a =C3=A9crit :<br>
&gt; Hi Prayank,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; On 13 Jan 2022, at 10:13, Prayank &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:prayank@tu=
tanota.de" target=3D"_blank">prayank@tutanota.de</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt;&gt; I had few suggestions and feel free to ignore them if they do not =
make sense:<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; 1.Name of this fund could be anything and &#39;The Bitcoin Legal D=
efense Fund&#39; can be confusing or misleading for newbies. There is nothi=
ng official in Bitcoin however people believe things written in news articl=
es and some of them might consider it as an official bitcoin legal fund.<br=
>
&gt; Excellent point. Will come up with a better name.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; 2.It would be better if people involved in such important funds do=
 not comment/influence soft fork related discussions. Example: Alex Morcos =
had some opinions about activation mechanism during Taproot soft fork IIRC.=
<br>
&gt; Yes. Will think through this and board operating principles we can sha=
re publicly, which would probably include criteria for how cases are chosen=
, to protect against this board and fund influencing direction.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Open to ideas and suggestions on all.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; jack<br>
&gt; _______________________________________________<br>
&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list<br>
&gt; <a href=3D"mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" target=3D"_bl=
ank">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a><br>
&gt; <a href=3D"https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-=
dev" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org=
/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev</a><br>
<br>
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