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* Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
@ 2022-01-13 10:13 Prayank
  2022-01-13 18:20 ` jack
  2022-01-13 18:28 ` Steve Lee
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Prayank @ 2022-01-13 10:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: jack; +Cc: Bitcoin Dev, info

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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 take advantage of if they so wish. The Fund will start with a corps of volunteer and part-time lawyers. The board of the Fund will be responsible for determining which lawsuits and defendants it will help defend.

Thanks for helping the developers in legal issues. Appreciate your efforts and I understand your intentions are to help Bitcoin in every possible way.


Positives that I see in this initiative:

1.Developers don't need to worry about rich scammers and can focus on development.

2.Financial help for developers as legal issues can end up in wasting lot of time and money.

3.People who have misused courts to affect bitcoin developers will get better response that they deserve.


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 Bitcoin however people believe things written in news articles and some of them might consider it as an official bitcoin legal fund.

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.



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* Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
@ 2022-01-12  9:59 SatoshiSingh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: SatoshiSingh @ 2022-01-12  9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-dev; +Cc: info

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> 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.

Here in India we have the Internet Freedom Foundation that does something similar but for digital freedom and privacy. They've been supportive to bitcoin and it would be cool if we can include them in this.

https://internetfreedom.in/

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* [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund
@ 2022-01-12  0:13 jack
  2022-01-12  0:47 ` René Pickhardt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 16+ messages in thread
From: jack @ 2022-01-12  0:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-dev; +Cc: alex

To Bitcoin Developers:

The Bitcoin community is currently the subject of multi-front litigation. Litigation and continued threats are having their intended effect; individual defendants have chosen to capitulate in the absence of legal support. Open-source developers, who are often independent, are especially susceptible to legal pressure. In response, we propose a coordinated and formalized response to help defend developers. The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is a nonprofit entity that aims to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively developing Bitcoin and related projects such as the Lightning Network, Bitcoin privacy protocols, and the like.

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 take advantage of if they so wish. The Fund will start with a corps of volunteer and part-time lawyers. The board of the Fund will be responsible for determining which lawsuits and defendants it will help defend.

The Fund’s first activities will be to take over coordination of the existing defense of the Tulip Trading lawsuit against certain developers alleging breach of fiduciary duty and provide the source of funding for outside counsel. At this time, the Fund is not seeking to raise additional money for its operations but will do so at the direction of the board if needed for further legal action or to pay for staff.

If you have questions or concerns, you can email info@bitcoindefensefund.org. Will share more information in the near future.

Sincerely,
Jack Dorsey, Alex Morcos, and Martin White
(Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund Board)


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