Maybe you should have someone like Adam Back who developed hashcash be a contact, since he talked with Satoshi, understands what Satoshi was trying to do, and has both understanding in the technical topics and an ability to speak with other humans without making everything offensive.
Ha coincidentally found this thread when I was googling my name (not something I am normally in a habit of doing) because I talked to a journalist a few weeks ago and I wanted to check if he mangled my technical explanation or worse; btw he didnt mention my name, even better, win!)
My exchange with Satoshi was early but very brief. I understand the tech ok and much of the precursor tech with various ecash technology. Theres a lot that happened since Satoshis paper in altcoin so I am in catch mode for a bit.
But I am not a good public speaker - I am allowed that luxury because I'm a crypto geek not an ex-CEO.
There are people who are masters at sounding cool, moderate, responsive and informative when faced with Bill O'reilly type verbal rough ups, and while covering controversial topics. ie Politicians and professional PR & and spokespeople. Rick Falkvinge is very impressive. Or for example watch Kim DotKom in this interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF48PjCtW4k Awesome "Well you have to understand blah blah.." sounds so reasonable. (Yeah ok it a friendly interview, but there are a few talented people who are amazing at sounding more reasonable than the presenter under fire).
Kristinn Hrafnsson holds his cool really well - and given the wikileaks controversies he gets to face up to the worst of it.
I always find Matonis fun, and his mix of ex-hushmail CEO and ex-VISA exec background seems hard to match in terms of bridging credentials. He does like to push the libertarian angle which is amusing to crypto-libertarian types but might not always look so amusing or bitcoin credibility inspiring to the business people and regulators, but he's still really good.
The main media do seem to more enjoy sensationalizing about the fringe users doing naughty and titilating things with bitcoin that they could just as well use paper notes in the snail for. Bitcoin isnt even anonymous for example as Shamir et al showed with their statistical analysis paper on the bitcoin public ledger - its less anonymous than paper cash - you dont get that kind of transparency and flow analysis with paper cash or physical banks handling of paper cash. And as far as that goes HSBC were found guilty of laundering getting on for a trillion dollars ($880 bil) and accepted paying $1.2 billion fine. Thats probably a slap on the wrist at their scale. No one went to jail, no one had banking licences revoked etc. Barclays did something similar. Maybe the regulators should start with real problems, they say HSBC laundering covered mexican drug cartels and even terror funding.
I always thought Ian Brown does pretty well for a tech guy - you see him on Al Jazeera sometimes for tech commentary.
Also I gotta write code, man, and stop getting sucked into blathering about politics fun though it is.
Adam
