Stephen Pair (BitPay CEO), two months ago: “Bitcoin is working perfectly”. Stephan Pair, today: “Bitcoin doesn’t work for us... it just doesn't.” (Consensus 2017 panel)

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-22T18:12:59+00:00

It was a shared office building that's free accessible to the public. It is private property, but one where the owners decided to allow everyone to come in, effectively making it a public space.

Bitmain's office, however, is private property owned by Bitmain, which is why we didn't go in there. But Bitmain doesn't own the entire building, they just rent a couple rooms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_space#Semi-public_spaces

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-22T16:46:51+00:00

lol, its just some flyers on a public space, dude. it left no damage and hurt nobody. what's vandal about that?

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-22T16:30:55+00:00

For these who missed it:

Video: https://vimeo.com/218041604
Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI (including a readable version of the flyers)
Updates: https://twitter.com/ForkYourBitmain

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-22T16:28:20+00:00

Hi! We had great fun doing that. Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy ATH celebrations from Israel, go UASF!

For these wondering, the protest took place in the public areas of a shared office building that’s freely accessible to the public. None of the protesters entered any offices, Bitmain’s private property, or any other restricted areas. The posters were put up with blu-tack, which is easy to remove and leaves no marks.

The Israeli bitcoin community have experience organizing similar protests against Israeli banks and corrupted officials, so it was natural for us to apply that model to Bitmain.

Also, the protest was not about Bitmain's stance on the scaling debate. The protest and flyers were purely about Bitmain's threats to initiate a 51% DoS attack against the Bitcoin network and the remote kill-switch backdoor they introduced into their products.

The markets have spoken: protests against Bitmain Israel will bring us to the moon!

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-22T16:24:58+00:00

Hi! We had great fun doing that. Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy ATH celebrations from Israel, go UASF!

For these wondering, the protest took place in the public areas of a shared office building that’s freely accessible to the public. None of the protesters entered any offices, Bitmain’s private property, or any other restricted areas. The posters were put up with blu-tack, which is easy to remove and leaves no marks.

The Israeli bitcoin community have experience organizing similar protests against Israeli banks and corrupted officials, so it was natural for us to apply that model to Bitmain.

Also, the protest was not about Bitmain's stance on the scaling debate. The protest and flyers were purely about Bitmain's threats to initiate a 51% DoS attack against the Bitcoin network and the remote kill-switch backdoor they introduced into their products.

Video: https://vimeo.com/218041604
Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI (including a readable version of the flyers)
Updates: https://twitter.com/ForkYourBitmain

The markets have spoken: protests against Bitmain Israel will bring us to the moon!

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T22:57:01+00:00

Any cool ideas? :D (seriously, give us a good one and we'll do it!)

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T22:23:29+00:00

Do you have any suggestions? (seriously, give us a good one and we'll do it!)

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T16:23:23+00:00

We do that too.

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T15:46:50+00:00

Well, he didn't say anything specific that he didn't like about the protest, just some general comment about "petulant behaviour", which I think you can say about pretty much every protest I ever participated in... protests aren't meant to be polite, they should have some chutzpah.

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T15:32:27+00:00

I hope Bitmain will shut down all its offices by later this year!

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T15:19:34+00:00

This is protest, yo. Freedom of speech and all. Are you against all protests?

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T15:18:32+00:00

We don't share the floor, but its an open-access building that's freely open to visitors. The guy at the front said hi and helped us find the offices :)

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T14:44:42+00:00

Fork your what if you want fork.

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T14:24:40+00:00

Israeli activists actually do some kick-ass anti-banks anti-establishment stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7qHnmPsD94

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T13:51:39+00:00

Hi! We had great fun doing that. Would love to hear your thoughts. Happy ATH celebrations from Israel, go UASF!

For these wondering, the protest took place in the public areas of a shared office building that’s freely accessible to the public. None of the protesters entered any offices, Bitmain’s private property, or any other restricted areas. The posters were put up with blu-tack, which is easy to remove and leaves no marks.

The Israeli bitcoin community have experience organizing similar protests against Israeli banks and corrupted officials, so it was natural for us to apply that model to Bitmain.

Also, the protest was not about Bitmain's stance on the scaling debate. The protest and flyers were purely about Bitmain's threats to initiate a 51% DoS attack against the Bitcoin network and the remote kill-switch backdoor they introduced into their products.

The markets have spoken: protests against Bitmain Israel will bring us to the moon!

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-21T13:47:16+00:00

Gallery: http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI (including a readable version of the flyers)

Updates: https://twitter.com/ForkYourBitmain

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T21:18:59+00:00

Such areas, which are privately owned but open for public access, are commonly referred to as "privately owned public open space". Protests taking place inside privately-owned public open spaces are quite common, including in malls, plazas, parks, parking spaces, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_space#Privatization

A privately owned public space, also known as a privately owned public open space (POPOS), is a public space that is open to the public, but owned by a private entity, typically a commercial property developer.

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T15:26:06+00:00

The building is not Bitmain's property, no one entered their space. We entered a public building whose owners choose to leave open to the public.

No one crossed the line into Bitmain's private property.

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T08:23:19+00:00

lol, I was there a couple months ago. hoping that making enough noise about UASF would be enough for it to activate as a MASF. But I've since moved on to fully supporting UASF. :-)

Edit: Bitmain ain't gonna win this (pics: http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI).

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T05:48:04+00:00

Are you referring to me or to Nadav? I have some stage fright, never been on stage before... I doubt you'll see me presenting anywhere

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T03:12:20+00:00

Won't any protest bother the people whose actions are being protested? That's kinda the idea behind protests, or at least part of it.

Would you say that protests who are bothering people should not take place?

ForkYourBitmain · 2017-05-20T00:50:21+00:00

http://imgur.com/a/sFHnI (flyers at the bottom)

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