BitcoinZ Decentralization

Thanks everyone for gathering around the fire and sharing your thoughts on structure and organization.  I do
believe it couldn't be more true that decentralization doesn't mean disorganization.  Since the launch of this
project we have enjoyed (or rather not) the entrance and exit of people that took it upon themselves to create a
degree of value based on their volunteer work.  Fundamentally - this helped jump start the project and to this
day the very core of what makes a project in this industry work remains very well intact - the continuity of
community and their willingness to give - because in most cases they believe in the image and the mission of
being a part of a movement that operates not only globally but (mostly) in the same direction and with a common
goal - an opportunity for all.

People that have come and stayed, help towards the mission to this day, people that came and left taught us a
lesson.  The lesson? Well in my opinion it's the reminder that is the nature of human psychology and in a lot of
cases, unfortunately, the need for some to be in a position of control and power, albeit disguised as "I'm just
being a leader to help the project move forward".  The persons we've learned carry with them a noticeable
pattern of practice and that is: _I'll volunteer my time but eventually I want something in return (but I wont
tell you that yet) and if I don't get it - I'll hurt your project because well you hurt me._
If people that are volunteering their time make an exit - and can already hurt the project - then: *1)* people
that the community hold in a regard as a 'leader' will see their departure as having lost a valuable asset
because this person seemed to be very involved and now the project will die. In some cases the person did little
and still tried to project that they were heavily involved. *2)* the departing person will have had in their
position some community asset and will destroy it to hurt the progress of the project.  This is in my opinion is
the result of a thirst for power and control and they realized they weren't going to get it - it drives these
types wild.  This is a predominant effect of organized but decentralized leadership - because as we've seen we
operate under pseudonyms mostly and people feel they can't be reached.  That's only one of the issues.
We've had, at least 5 times that I can remember, investors approach us asking for control of a certain component
of the project (marketing, PR, development, controlled announcements, who knows what else).  Our answer has
always been - we cannot deliver control of something we don't have control of ourselves.  One of them was
strategically intelligent - they asked for control of our public facing components: Social media.  Why? because
they wanted to control the timing of when the news comes out - in other words - keep certain news under wraps
while we buy a shitload of coins, then we'll release the news.  At least that was my assessment of them, and we
kindly said - sorry but we can't do that. (edited)

As Hyxt said - trust. Trust has been a very critical component of assembling a community like this - the persons
that do have access to the infrastructure have proven to this point to be of trustworthy nature and there will
be more to come - I think decentralization of the community assets takes time and will continue to take time to
add more persons to have access to the community assets. The only reason why this has to be this way is because
as mentioned earlier - the power hungry will destroy based on an imaginary attack on them. You're right, and
you're not the first and wont be the last to say that decentralization doesn't mean disorganization - but
honestly the people that have done what you see here have assembled on their own, without any incentive other
than to be part of the BitcoinZ progression because they truly believe in the mission - they essentially are
self-proclaimed - through their actions, and the only involvement we've had is publicizing their efforts because
they informed us of their efforts.

_This_ is what decentralization is - no group of people have to tell you and hound you to do it - you do it
because you want to.