Board Member Olivier Janssens Leaks Damning Facts About the Bitcoin Foundation

Board Member Olivier Janssens Leaks Damning Facts About the Bitcoin Foundation

Olivier Janssens, who was elected to the Bitcoin Foundation Board of Directors last month, made a very interesting post to Reddit early this morning. Saying that he felt it was his duty to divulge certain facts about the organization, he detailed his experience working as a board member. Transparency Not A Priority. "I was elected on a platform of transparency and decentralization of core development," Janssens says early in his post. Throughout the post, he explains how the organization has done its best to hide its inner-workings and ineffectively manage its resources. When I joined on....


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