Bitcoin Foundation Election Deadline Extended Due to Voting 'Hiccups'
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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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....
The voting period for an election that aims to fill in two vacation industry seats on the Bitcoin Foundation board ends at midnight tonight, leaving the bitcoin community wondering just who will help carry on the Board's mission of bitcoin of helping people exchange resources and ideas more freely. The vacant board seats were once held by Charlie Shrem, who was the CEO of BitInstant. Due to legal troubles (specifically, suspicion of laundering in the neighborhood of $1 million), Shrem gave up his seat earlier this year. The other seat belonged to Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the Mt. Gox....
The Bitcoin Foundation announced on Friday afternoon that they're extending the signup deadline for new Industry Members to April 15th. This will allow the members to take part in the upcoming election, as the Industry Member status is required for participation. Next month's election aims to fill in two vacant industry board seats, one of which belonged to disgraced bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. The Bitcoin Foundation says, "Any industry member signed up with a current industry membership by April 15, 2014 will be able to vote," and "Any industry member that has a current industry membership....
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.....