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*Updated: Mr. Guillot AKA yankprintster (4225) responded and is interested in answering some questions. Ask him your questions below in the comments*
B.J. Guillot is one of three candidates currently seeking to represent Washington's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Guillot is also a reader of SoylentNews. In a recent interview with CoinTelegraph about his enthusiastic support of cryptocurrency, Mr. Guillot was asked "When did you first hear about Bitcoin, and when did you get into it?" He explains that he got turned on to Bitcoin while reading a certain news for nerds site, and then mentions:
Since I have the floor, let me just state for the record, the new Slashdot web design and user experience is really poor. I've since moved on to SoylentNews.org for my daily science and tech news.
Perhaps Mr. Guillot would be kind enough to answer a few questions about his positions on topics of particular concern to the SN community. I invite him to answer directly in the comments below, or if he would prefer, I will collect and forward the highest-modded comments to Mr. Guillot, and then submit a new story with his responses.
According to his campaign website, Mr. Guillot holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, and has software development experience.
The Crypto Crimson reports that while many politicians are "quick to jump on the bitcoin bandwagon" following the U.S. Federal Election Commission's recent opinon declaring that political committes may accept contributions in the form of Bitcoin, unlike these other politicians, Mr. Guillot is an active miner who "currently achiev[es] a hashrate of five Terahash per Second - certainly the fastest bitcoin mining politician".
The top item to appear in the "Issues" section of Mr. Guillot's campaign website is "NSA Spying". Mr. Guillot's stated positon on this issue is: "The Federal Government needs to immediately stop its spying and metadata collection of its citizen's phone calls and emails. It's also time to discontinue the Patriot Act. No more extensions!".
On his campaign website, Mr. Guillot also states his positions on: "Internet Freedom", "Patent Reform", "Bitcoin", "National Debt", "FairTax", "Military", "Second Amendment", "Energy", and "Education".
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Monday July 07 2014, @01:20PM
I wouldn't expect a huge spike in the viewing stats but a gentle increase might be noted. I don't know how big a circulation the primary source receives (CoinTelegraph) but the only others to see it will already be here. Still, it is very welcome and I agree that it is heartening to all of the community when the site gets public recognition such as this. Coupled with our successful Incorporation last Friday, it has been a good few days for SN. Now the long slog of hard work continues...
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tibman on Monday July 07 2014, @01:27PM
It also makes you curious how many SN people would be considered important or slightly famous. Where there's one, i suspect quite a few more.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Monday July 07 2014, @02:06PM
I am famous in my household only, does that count.? :)
(Score: 4, Funny) by present_arms on Monday July 07 2014, @02:11PM
I'm famous for other things, I'm waiting for Google to de-list me
http://trinity.mypclinuxos.com/
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday July 07 2014, @03:00PM
It does in your household...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 07 2014, @03:47PM
I'm famous for making dickish comments all over the internet.
(Score: 1) by N3Roaster on Monday July 07 2014, @06:32PM
I'm apparently a minor celebrity within the coffee industry if that counts for anything.
Typica - Free software for coffee roasting professionals. [typica.us]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:03AM
Perhaps something of a "Has Bean"?
(Score: 1) by N3Roaster on Tuesday July 08 2014, @02:09AM
No, he's across the pond.
Typica - Free software for coffee roasting professionals. [typica.us]
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Monday July 07 2014, @07:33PM
Our traffic stats have more or less been stable for the last month (since we started running piwik), I'll have to check after the daily report runs to see if our averages go up.
Still always moving