Meet the 15 Candidates for the Bitcoin Foundation Board Elections
Following the resignations of former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles from the board of directors at the Bitcoin Foundation earlier this year, 15 candidates have emerged as potential replacements as part of the organisation's ongoing special election. Voting for the two vacant seats is now open to registered Industry Members, with the election scheduled to close at 11.59pm US EST on Wednesday, 30th April. While the winning candidates have yet to be decided, what is certain is that these individuals will be tasked with joining the Bitcoin Foundation at a time when....
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We have reached out to the candidates for the upcoming Bitcoin Foundation Elections and asked each candidate a set of questions. In the interest of fairness, all candidates were asked the same questions at the same time, and all responses (that did respond) have been received before the publication of this article. Colin Gallagher. Is currently a volunteer as Interim Chair, Education Committee of the Bitcoin Foundation, and is on the Advisory Board(s) at The Lifeboat Foundation, including the New Money Systems Board. He is running for one of the Individual Director seats of the Bitcoin....
A non-profit organisation in the UK that counts some of the country's more prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and advocates will soon hold its first board elections. Ten candidates will stand for five positions on the board of the UK Digital Currencies Association (UKDCA) during the election, which takes place on 26th September. Paul Ferris, who leads the association's communications working group, said: "They're very important elections. They are the first elections of the board, the [current] board members have been acting so far as interim [board members] until we get the democracy....
The Bitcoin Foundation Elections Committee has released a unique new project that has been in the works for the last year. “a new official Distributed Opinion System for the Board Elections” ~ Michael Toomim. With a newly created website dedicated to this system, The Distributed Opinion can be found here, https://bitcoin.consider.it/. Foundation members and non-members can view the candidates and their current standings with regards to the opinions of the Foundation members. Bitcoin Foundation members can change their opinions at any time after giving their initial thoughts on a candidate....
Here is an update on what is going on with the Bitcoin Foundation elections. The Bitcoin Foundation polls are closed now! The Bitcoinfoundation.org has updated as follows: Voting for the Bitcoin Foundation’s two open industry board seats ended last night at 11:59pm EDT. Results will be published here today at around 6:30pm. “We had a great turnout for this round of voting and want to thank our industry members for getting so involved! Nearly 75% of our industry members voted with 102 out of the possible 137 ballots submitted.” A candidate will need at least 52 votes to win a seat. If no....
Starting with 13 Candidates in the first election round, the Bitcoin Foundation has chosen its new Directors after the elections ran to a secondary, runoff round. The Foundation allowed only the top four candidates from the first round into the runoffs, Bruce Fenton, Jim Harper, Michael Perklin, Olivier Janssens. And each candidate still required 50% approval to win a seat. The Bitcoin Foundation runoff elections have finished. Jim Harper and Olivier Janssens have won the two seats; the final tally was. Jim Harper 264 (60)%. Bruce Fenton 218 (50)%. Michael Perklin 229 (52)%. Olivier....