Election for Vacant Bitcoin Foundation Board Seats Extended Due To Technical Difficulties
In an email to eligible voters, the Bitcoin Foundation has noted they are planning to extend their election for two vacant industry seats on their board. Voting was originally expected to end on the 28th of April at midnight, but the Foundation says that date has been pushed up two days to the 30th of April. The reason? Technical difficulties. That's according to chairman of the Foundation's election committee Brian Goss, who wrote the following (via CoinDesk): On account [of] the hiccups we had getting the vote launched as well as the numerous reports of ballots getting stuck in spam....
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The Bitcoin Foundation has extended the deadline for voting in its ongoing special election to fill the two industry seats left vacant by Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles and former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem. Though voting was originally slated to end at midnight EST on 28th April, the deadline has been extended to Wednesday, 30th April. Brian Goss, chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's election committee, sent the message via email to eligible voters, notifying them of the change. Wrote Goss: "On account [of] the hiccups we had getting the vote launched as well as the numerous reports of....
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