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Update quotes on Press page #991
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harding
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Jul 30, 2015
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Soft-dislike of linking Wikipedia in a way that implies it is a reliable source of information. Also, Gavin is no longer with the Bitcoin Foundation. |
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@luke-jr I know you don't like Wikipedia for that reason, and I agree that too many people blindly trust it. However, I think it has the advantage of being a neutral starting resource for research into the backgrounds of public figures. Are you sure Gavin is no longer with the Foundation? Last I heard, he was still its Chief Scientist even though the MIT Media Lab pays his salary. At least that's what this tweet from him said in April. |
saivann
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Aug 1, 2015
| quoteandyskelton: "PayPal alone blocks access from over 60 countries ... Whatever the reason, we don’t think an individual blogger from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to the blogosphere because of payment issues they can’t control." | ||
| quotetuurdemeester: "The Babyboomers gave us the personal computer, Generation X gave us the Internet, and now Generation Y is building a new financial paradigm." | ||
| quoterichardbrown: "Had you asked me five years ago, I would just say it was impossible. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies solved this problem of coming to a consensus globally where you don't trust anybody else." | ||
| quotefredwilson: "We believe that Bitcoin represents something fundamental and powerful ... It reminds us of SMTP, HTTP, RSS, and BitTorrent in its architecture and openness." | ||
| - quotejohndonohoe: "Digital currency is going to be a very powerful thing." | ||
| + quotejohndonohoe: "[Digital currency is going to be] a very powerful thing." |
harding
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Except for the comment above, LGTM up to commit 5705f0a. Thanks! |
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@saivann thanks! In the absence of critical feedback, this pull will be merged on Tuesday. |
harding commentedJul 30, 2015
This PR makes changes to the quotes section of the Press page. It is, I hope, the last PR related to the changes started in aborted PR #972. There are several commits:
Fix a CSS-based bug that prevents display of the open-quote on the left column. This can be seen on the live site: https://bitcoin.org/en/press#quotes
Add a link to the Bitcoin WikiQuotes page for even more quotes. Although this page doesn't currently have many more quotes than we do, I hope that by linking to it, we'll encourage more people to contribute to it.
Replace quotes from Max Keiser and Timothy Lee with quotes from Paul Buchheit (GMail creator) and Brian Forde (MIT DCI director). The replaced quotes described Bitcoin as, respectively, "cheapest" and "costless", which is only true if you exclude certain other payment systems (like physical cash) and network costs (like mining and verification).
Link the names of the quoted persons to the English Wikipedia articles about them. If no English Wikipedia article was available, I did not link anything.
Link quotes to the source where the quote first appeared (as best as I could determine). I couldn't find the source for some quotes, so no link was added in those cases. I also corrected one quote based on the linked source quote.
Remove the quote that both Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt said. The quote on Bitcoin.org is, "Bitcoin is a technological tour de force", but I feel that this is misleading given the qualifications they each put into the rest of the original quotes (as linked in the preceding commit):
I think they're approving of the block chain/POW consensus but not of the monetary aspect. Since Bitcoin.org is promoting both aspects, I don't think it's fair of us to use their quotes.
After these commits, the fully-expanded section looks like: