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Meanwhile, bitcoin's public image is taking a beating, after the Mt. Gox bankruptcy, millions in BTC missing, Russia and China condemning the digital currency, and the value tanking. Amid that unhappy picture, the Foundation also hired a PR pro, Amy Weiss, who served as Bill Clinton's deputy press secretary.Thing is, the Bitcoin Foundation doesn't speak for the whole cryptocurrency community, and in fact some diehards wholeheartedly disagree with its effort to play nice with federal regulators and law enforcement.Folks in this ideological camp would rather see the anonymous payment system dive deeper underground and retain its fundamental anti-government ethos rather than be cooped by the capitalist establishment.At the more radical end of that mindset is techno-libertarian Cody Wilson of 3D-printed gun fame, who just recently launched Dark Wallet, a virtual currency payment system designed to assure that all transactions are secure, anonymous, and difficult to trace.Plenty of comments on yesterday's chain echoed this sentiment. "Bitcoin's greatest chance of success is by ignoring regulation rather than lobbying against it. The more anarchist Bitcoin is, the more valuable it is to investors, wrote Daniel Krawisz on the Reddit chain. He's director of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, which works to preserve and continue the cryptocurrency's founding principles."Do you honestly believe bitcoin can reach its full potential without initially winning over some of the DC bozos?"
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