Understanding Eris: The Bitcoin Foundation Proposal

Understanding Eris: The Bitcoin Foundation Proposal

"The Bitcoin Foundation has had its role in the last two years. Unfortunately, it is internally recreating the same archaic political system that fails to work for society," Olivier Janssens, Bitcoin millionaire and early adopter, said one month ago, "We don't need another intermediary. We can do this ourselves." When the Bitcoin Foundation came under fire in May during the election of Brock Pierce as their new director, leading to ten prominent Foundation members resigning, Olivier said enough was enough. On Bitcoin's official subreddit, he offered a $100,000 bounty for a radical new....


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