In the Spirit of Transparency, Bitcoin Foundation Announces Reddit AMA Series
The Bitcoin Foundation is planning to host a series of Reddit AMAs beginning tomorrow in the spirit of transparency. The Foundation's own Jinyoung Lee Englund announced the series in a blog post Monday. The first session begins tomorrow, Tuesday, October 14th. And on deck is the Foundation's Global Policy Counsel, Mr. Jim Harper. His AMA begins at 11 a.m. Eastern U. S. time. Here's his bio: Jim Harper is the Bitcoin Foundation's Global Policy Counsel. From 2004 to 2014, Harper was director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute, where he remains a senior fellow. A former....
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AMA in progress: Link. It was just about a week ago when the Bitcoin Foundation announced a Reddit AMA series in the spirit of transparency (AMA stands for "ask me anything"). The idea, as you might have already guessed, is designed to give the bitcoin community easy access to asking questions to some of the well-known entities at the Foundation. Last week, the first to be asked questions by the community was Jim Harper, who serves as Global Policy Counsel at the Foundation. This week, someone else it up, and that someone is Gavin Andresen. Andresen serves as "Chief Scientist" at the....
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Olivier Janssens, who was elected to the Bitcoin Foundation Board of Directors last month, made a very interesting post to Reddit early this morning. Saying that he felt it was his duty to divulge certain facts about the organization, he detailed his experience working as a board member. Transparency Not A Priority. "I was elected on a platform of transparency and decentralization of core development," Janssens says early in his post. Throughout the post, he explains how the organization has done its best to hide its inner-workings and ineffectively manage its resources. When I joined on....