Bitcoin Foundation Trials Blockchain Voting in Latest Election Controversy
As perhaps an extension of its recent focus on revitalizing its image, the Bitcoin Foundation announced yesterday it would allow its members to cast votes in its latest election round directly on the bitcoin blockchain, the digital currency's public ledger. Billed in a blog post as a way for the Bitcoin Foundation to advance blockchain technology by new executive director Patrick Murck, the decision was soon met with mixed reactions, with some lauding the novel step and others criticising it for a potential negative impact on an election meant to fill two outgoing board member positions.....
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Voting in the ongoing election to fill the Bitcoin Foundation's two vacant Board of Directors seats has officially resumed with the start of a second round of voting featuring the top three remaining candidates. The Bitcoin Foundation launched the second round of voting after the first ended with no candidates reaching the minimum vote threshold necessary for election. The outcome was one of several possible conclusions owing to the wording of the Bitcoin Foundation's by-laws. The runoff round began at 9am EDT on 6th May and will last until 11.59pm EDT on 8th May, according to Brian Goss,....
An election to fill two individual member seats at the Bitcoin Foundation has ended without a clear winner, voting results show. The Bitcoin Foundation reports that none of the 13 candidates received at least 50% of the vote from foundation members, a development that will result in another round of voting. Participants in the run-off election will include entrepreneur Olivier Janssens, former foundation global policy counsel Jim Harper, Atlantic Financial's Bruce Fenton and Michael Perklin of the CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4), each of whom received at least 30% of the vote.....
Olivier Janssens and Jim Harper eventually ended up as the winners of the recently-held Bitcoin Foundation election after procuring 277 and 264 votes, respectively. Their nearest rival Michael Perklin managed to bag only 229 out of the total 440 casted votes. The election, that was held in order to democratically elect the two new board members for the Bitcoin Foundation, facedcriticism for being poorly managed. The foundation was accused by its lifetime and annual members of parachuting to a new, untested on-blockchain voting platform that eventually turned out to be highly lapsed. This....
Blockchain technology could provide the security needed to expand national voting beyond provincial borders. Trials of blockchain-aided voting in India which would enable voters to post ballots from outside their home provinces are to begin soon.Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said that research using the cutting edge technology had already started and that mock trials were to be launched in the very near future, as reported by The Wire.India’s Election Commission worked alongside researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in creating a secure way to verify....
The Bitcoin Foundation today announced to test its upcoming on-blockchain voting system on crowdfunding platform Swarm. As stated in the organization's latest blog, the aim of this project is to bring "greater transparency not the voting process", where every vote is recorded under a secure, cryptographic hash. The foundation however ignored to elaborate the insights of this project - explaining how different it is from the other decentralized voting platforms like BitCongress. Though a theoretically astound concept, the Bitcoin Foundation's voting system project still has taken a long....