Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-14 Thread Jeremy via bitcoin-dev
If I understand the intent of your message correctly, that's unfortunately not how the law works. If there is a case that is precedent setting, whether it directly involves bitcoin or not, a bitcoin focused legal fund might want to either offer representation or file an amicus brief to guide the c

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-14 Thread qmccormick13 via bitcoin-dev
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 ot

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund

2022-01-14 Thread Aymeric Vitte via bitcoin-dev
(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