After Chaotic First Day, Bitcoin Foundation Reboots Run-off Election
It was an interesting experiment, but the Bitcoin Foundation's bid to hold on-blockchain elections today seems to be over. In a letter sent to members dated February 25, 2015 at 12:46:33 a.m. EST and posted on the Bitcoin Foundation blog, the Foundation's Director of Communications, Jinyoung Lee Englund, announced that the run-off elections being held to....
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The process was "messy" but the results are in. The new board members for the Bitcoin Foundation are Olivier Janssens and Jim Harper with 63 percent and 60 percent approval respectively. Michael Perklin finished third with 52 percent approval followed by Bruce Fenton with 50 percent. Out of 595 confirmed voters, 440 votes were cast (74 percent). In order to be elected, candidates had to be approved by at least 50 percent of eligible voters. In the first round of voting, none of the 13 candidates met that 50 percent approval threshold, so a run-off election among the top 4 candidates was....
Bitcoin Foundation Elections ballot boxes are opening this 13th of February and close on the 19th of February. The Bitcoin Foundation, founded in 2012, has come a long way. The Bitcoin Foundation election is just around the corner. The election polls are open from the 13th of February and stay open until the 19th of February. This Bitcoin Foundation election is being held to elect two Directors, along with other board members of the Foundation. Yes, this is serious matter and an important one for all - Bitcoin enthusiasts and critics alike. Who Are The Bitcoin Foundation Election Nominees?....
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....
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.....
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