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Update Article II (Purpose): Anonymity and Funding
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This pull request is responsive to issue pmlaw#19 ("Anonymity and Funding").  It is expressly written to minimize change to the Bylaws, provides an additional emphasis on anonymity that was not previously present, while still ensuring that bitcoin in its current, non-anonymous form is expressly supported in the Purpose section.  Where the Corporation "shall promote and protect" aspects of bitcoin use (and use of "such systems,") "all derivative uses of blockchain data" are added to emphasize that the Corporation shall promote and protect the many uses of bitcoin.  Additionally, a reference to "financial privacy" is replaced with "user-defined privacy," emphasizing the vital role of individual choice which is present in the Bylaws.
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Section 2.1 Purposes: The Corporation is an association of persons having a common business interest, the purpose of which is to promote that common business interest and to engage in any lawful activity permitted under section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. More specifically, the purposes of the Corporation include, but are not limited to, promotion, protection, and standardization of distributed-digital currency and transactions systems including the Bitcoin system as well as similar and related technologies.

Section 2.2 The Corporation shall promote and protect both the decentralized, distributed and private nature of the Bitcoin distributed-digital currency and transaction system as well as individual choice, participation and financial privacy when using such systems. The Corporation shall further require that any distributed-digital currency falling within the ambit of the Corporation's purpose be decentralized, distributed and private and that it support individual choice, participation and financial privacy.
Section 2.2 The Corporation shall promote and protect both the decentralized, distributed and private nature of the Bitcoin distributed-digital currency and transaction system as well as individual choice, participation, user-defined privacy, and development of anonymity when using such systems and for all derivative uses of blockchain data. The Corporation shall further require that any distributed-digital currency falling within the ambit of the Corporation's purpose, and any distributed-digital currency which the Corporation supports through funding, be decentralized, distributed and private and that it support individual choice, participation, user-defined privacy, and the opportunity for anonymity development.

ARTICLE III - MEMBERSHIP

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@mdhaze mdhaze commented on f889054 Aug 5, 2014

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I support the change request as written.

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I support the change request as written.

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What is "user-defined privacy"?

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To: @mdhaze, @David-R-Allen: Thank you.

To: @JohnWnuk: Please see the following comment in the issue which led to this pull request, which clarifies that "if it's adopted (in its current form or if the Board adopts a modified version of it), then I foresee that the Board would likely go on to adopt resolutions and/or policy statements that would clarify how the Board would, in its discretion, implement its Purpose, post-Bylaw-change." Whether or not particular definitions would be added is also entirely up to the Board. Definitions are not part of this pull request, as it is not the intent to tie the Board's hands to strict definitions, for reasons generally described in another comment in the issue which led to the pull request.

To all concerned: This pull request has been submitted as an item to be added to the Board agenda according to the process in place. I will not change the language of the pull request further, unless I am directed to do so as a result of a formal vote of the Board of Directors based on a meeting in which they vote on this pull request. Additional requests from members of the Bitcoin Foundation, including, but not limited to, individual members of the Board of Directors, will not provide cause to change the language of the pull request. No further action will be provided by me on this pull request until such time that the Board of Directors votes on it to provide necessary direction.

The Board, as part of its vote, may approve the pull request, deny the pull request, or vote to approve it in part subject to any modifications which would be made by the Board at the time of its vote.

It is my sincere hope that all Board of Directors will reserve their judgment on this pull request until such time that they are considering it together and listening to each other in a Board of Directors meeting in which they will vote on the pull request. To do otherwise would be to disregard the full scope of thoughts and dialogue that the Board of Directors could have together in the context of the vote. For those reasons, I sincerely hope that none of the members of the Board of Directors will express how they will vote here in advance of the formal vote. I would much rather see a vote be a product of their sincere deliberations together at the time of the vote, so that we will all be informed of the results only after the formal vote.

This concludes my remarks on this pull request. Thank you for your interest. I will return to this matter after a vote is held on this pull request by the Board of Directors of the Bitcoin Foundation.
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