Voting For Bitcoin Foundation Board Seats Ends Tonight
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....
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The initial voting session for two vacant industry seats on the Bitcoin Foundation board expired Wednesday at 11:59 PM, and the initial session of voting yielded no new board members. Announced this evening by Brian Goss of the Bitcoin Foundation, there's "no outright winner", which means another road of voting will be required. The first round of voting saw participation from nearly 75 percent of the Foundation's industry members, with 102 out of 137 ballots submitted. For the seats, a candidate will require at minimum 52 votes. According to Goss, "If no candidate receives 52 votes or....
As an update to a post in mid-February that indicated a vacant industry seat on the Board of Directors of the Bitcoin Foundation was available, the Foundation has posted an update that indicated that two industry seats are now available on the board. Presumably, this is related to the recent forfeiture of the seat once occupied by Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox. On February 23rd, the foundation announced the Tokyo-based exchange (now under bankruptcy protection) had stepped down. In order to nominate a potential candidate, one must be an Industry Member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Nominees must....
The Bitcoin Foundation is now conducting elections to fill the two open industry seats on its Board of Directors. The seats have been empty since the arrest of Charlie Shrem and the subsequent resignation of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles, whose Japan-based bitcoin exchange filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Nominations began in February, with voting officially starting on 21st April. Voting is expected to last one week, and all Bitcoin Foundation industry members are eligible to vote. Campaigning is now taking place via forums on the organization's website. Current board members. The two....
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....
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....