I'm willing to give Dustin some sympathy, I don't think any company could ever relate to the amount of rapid growth that was experienced within Facebook back then and is still continuing today. I was put in a similar situation to a much smaller extent and as the team grew it honestly felt like the majority of my job was babysitting rather than accomplishing what I had set out to do.
At the same time it's important to understand that for every no there should also be a yes, and it's just as easy to gently put people down rather than say something that could be construed as rude.
If you aren't holding the bitcoins yourself and instead are paying a fee for someone else to do so, it pretty much defeats the purpose and decentralized nature of bitcoin.
Very cool, have seen a few sites doing this sort of thing. The only concern with these type of services is the fact that scammers will harvest trust on small trades and then scam big trades.
Your service should verify the real life identities of users or perhaps work in some sort of escrow.
I have a weak attention span and rarely watch documentaries all the way through, usually I'll skip 10-20 minutes here and there. However, I viewed this all the way through with no skips or pauses.
Aaron was an incredible person with a powerful mind, it is tragic that government harassment drove him to take his own life.
Tim Berners-Lee said it best:
"Aaron dead. World wanderers, we have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Parents all, we have lost a child. Let us weep."
I found this fairly clever but pretty impractical. If you put an image online you must assume that it is public domain. The only real way to prevent true theft is to offer a lower quality image but this defeats the purpose of putting your image online in the first place.
Nonetheless there are pretty smart ways to monetize content like this and any professional source will pay to use it.
At the same time it's important to understand that for every no there should also be a yes, and it's just as easy to gently put people down rather than say something that could be construed as rude.