'We Now Have a 100% Fully Elected Board and We Can Move On' — Bruce Fenton
Bruce Fenton is a well-known Bitcoin activist in the crypto community. The Managing Director and founder of Atlantic Financial Inc. and Boston Gulf Advisors Group, more recently Bruce has been voted into the Bitcoin Foundation as executive director. He has big plans to revamp the foundation and bring some fiscal change. CoinTelegraph previously briefly discussed with Bruce the realities of issues such as Ben Lawsky and the BitLicense scheme, but this time around we had a chance to have a more in-depth look at how Bruce aims to solidify the Bitcoin Foundation itself. CoinTelegraph: Can you....
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As the Bitcoin Foundation clearly needs change, its newly-elected executive director Bruce Fenton told Cointelegraph about his vision of most urgent issues that face the organization, including the lack of transparency, the image problem and the need to decentralize. CoinTelegraph: It's no secret the Foundation has an image problem both in the community and in the media. Are you worried about being its figurehead at this time? Bruce Fenton: Well I think we have a fast growing space that is bound to have a lot of changes and a lot of turmoil, and I think it’s a part of the challenges that....
In a vote consisting of five ayes and one abstention, the Bitcoin Foundation Board has elected lifetime member Bruce Fenton to the position of Executive Director, replacing interim director Patrick Murck who held the position for the five months following Jon Matonis's resignation. In an announcement posted on Monday afternoon, the Foundation stated that it decided that "in opinion of the board, [Fenton] is the best candidate for the job." In February of 2015, Fenton lost his bid to win one of the two open Board seats during the general election, finishing in fourth position behind Olivier....
Newly elected Bitcoin Foundation chief Bruce Fenton believes that a decentralized tool like crowdfunding can be an optimum solution for the cash-strapped organization which was founded in 2012 to promote, protect and standardize the use of Bitcoin around the globe. Crowdfunding is the method of raising money through monetary contributions from a large number of people via the Internet, in order to fund a project. Earlier, board member of the Bitcoin Foundation Olivier Janssens had termed the Bitcoin Foundation "effectively bankrupt." The foundation made an official announcement via its....
Veteran bitcoin activist Bruce Fenton has been named the Bitcoin Foundation's newest executive director. Elected by a 5-to-1 vote, Fenton succeeds interim executive director Patrick Murck and outgoing executive director Jon Matonis, the latter of whom resigned on 30th October amid financial turmoil and ahead of staff cuts at the industry's top trade organization. In interview, Fenton stressed that his greatest asset to the Bitcoin Foundation would be his ability to serve as a "bridge" between the organisation's individual and corporate members. He cited his full-time position as CEO of....
Venture capitalist Brock Pierce has been named chairman of the board of directors at the Bitcoin Foundation, the digital currency's oldest trade organisation. Pierce was elected to the position by a 3-0 vote Tuesday, with board member Olivier Janssens abstaining. The 34-year-old was nominated by board member and BTC China CEO Bobby Lee, with whom Pierce was elected to the foundation in May of 2014. In interview, Pierce indicated that his role will now be to work with newly appointed executive director Bruce Fenton as he shapes the nonprofit's 2015 strategy and works to create consensus on....