Bitcoin Foundation Voting Round Could End With No Clear Winners
Following the sudden resignations of former BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles earlier this year, the Bitcoin Foundation has been short two members for its Board of Directors, its key decision-making body. Due to the ensuing fallout, many community members and current board members have expressed optimism that the newly elected candidates will reinvigorate the foundation at a time when it is seeking to bring bitcoin's message to mainstream consumers worldwide. However, though the polls are scheduled to close just shy of midnight tonight, there remains the....
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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.....
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....
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....
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....