Well the only two guys on the NY panel against regulation were the two VCs.
Early stage miners can be okay capital partners.....but there is way more to a business than capital.....VCs bring expertise, connections etc.
Roger is one of a kind, personally I think he'd be an awesome partner....but even he doesn't have the network and operational support that a Kliener Perkins or Andreessen Horowitz can bring. He's probably more of a perfect early to seed stage/ first round VC partner. I'd gladly work with him or recommend it to another.
By VCs I also meant capital market guys and attorneys.
"Mark T. Williams, a professor at Boston University School of Management and upcoming panel speaker, described the comments by Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of SecondMarket; Jeremy Liew, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners; Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures; and the Winklevoss brothers as being undeniably pro-regulation."http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-hearings-day-1-bitcoin-hits-tipping-point-new-york-regulators/At the Las Vegas Inside Bitcoins panel "Moving Bitcoin Forward", Robert Cho, Adam Ettinger, Izzy Klein, and Adam Lukasiewicz all advocated regulating Bitcoin. The memorable dissent came Andreas Antonopoulos.
http://www.coinsiderthis.com/2013/12/30/inside-bitcoins-panel-moving-bitcoin-forward/"Jeremy Allaire, who founded the bitcoin payments company Circle, which raised $9m in venture capital funding and is due to launch later this year, is one of the people arguing that bitcoiners should work with governments to establish regulations for bitcoin.
"If your goals are to create a sort of shadow financial system that runs in offshore jurisdictions and is attractive for anarchists and criminals, then maybe [regulation] is not important, he told CoinDesk on a recent visit to London.
But if your goal is to ensure widespread adoption of bitcoin, there needs to be rules around its use, he says, arguing that its not good enough to imagine bitcoin can exist above society:
A lot of the safeguards that businesses and consumers take for granted in their everyday interactions and payments dont exist in bitcoin, so [...] how do we understand those risks? How do we address those risks? Thats actually going to be the path forward, not saying, well bitcoin is superior to all things, its going to undermine all of these things.http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-abandons-anti-establishment-wall-street/I agree with you that VCs can bring value. I think entrepreneurs should thoroughly investigate a potential investment partner to see if he wants Bitcoin regulated. Because if he does, he'll want your project to comply with those regulations. That could be anathema.
