Foundation Election Runoffs Concluding

Foundation Election Runoffs Concluding

The Bitcoin Foundation runoff elections had a surprise for its members when it started earlier this week. Without warning it had changed the format for the election to the Swam platform. Users had to re-register, download a paper wallet, copy a password from that, and then wait for an email, or not, and then they were able to vote after using the second password. The novelty of the new voting system was that it used the block chain to cast and count members votes. Through some research, a redditor was able to provide the following information. Oliver Janssens (Yes):....


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