Board Member Olivier Janssens Thrashes Bitcoin Foundation Publicly
Olivier Janssens, the newly elected Bitcoin Foundation board member, recently took a revolting stand against the organization. The celebrated Bitcoin adopter accused the foundation of "lacking transparency of its actions," while exemplifying their decision to ignore recording the board meetings. "We [him and Jim Harper] followed Robert's rules of orders, and everyone else basically shut us down and failed to follow procedures," wrote Janssens, while recalling his version of truth. "The Bitcoin Foundation hates transparency," he later implicated. Janssens constantly stressed on some trivia....
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Bitcoin Foundation board members Jim Harper and Olivier Janssens have resigned and been removed from the trade organization, respectively, following a disagreement over the future of the advocacy group. At an 11am EST meeting today, long-standing disagreements among Bitcoin Foundation board members came to a head over a vote on whether the organization should be disbanded. Both Harper and Janssens voted to shut down the foundation. In a statement, Bitcoin Foundation vice chairman and BTCC CEO Bobby Lee said the organization accepted the resignation of Jim Harper following the vote, a....
Olivier Janssens and Jim Harper have become the Bitcoin Foundation's newest board members, following a recent election that was not without controversy. The winning candidates received 277 and 264 votes respectively, from 440 eligible voters. When asked about his objectives as a newly appointed board member, Janssens, a founder of Freedom Investment Group, said that he wanted to decentralise core development so that the core developers could be paid directly by the community, instead of having the Bitcoin Foundation "sitting in between". Janssens continued: "Through public crowdfunding,....
It looks like the Bitcoin Foundation might finally be dead. At least, that’s according to Olivier Janssens, one of the more recent additions to the Foundation’s board of directors. Janssens took to Reddit on December 15, 2015, informing the community that he had been “forcibly removed from the Bitcoin Foundation board.” The former board member claimed that his tenure at the Foundation ended at the latest board meeting, when the board voted to remove Janssens in response to his motion to force the Foundation to draft a plan for development before attempting to raise additional funds from....
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....
Barely a week after we reported that the Bitcoin Foundation is facing a severe cash crunch, the organization has "forcibly removed" member Olivier Janssens as he opposed the idea of further fundraising without a plan in place. The announcement was made by Olivier himself on popular social platform Reddit. He shared the entire sequence of circumstances which led to his removal. He said that a discussion on the future of the Foundation soon turned ugly when someone (unnamed) started a vote on shutting down the organization. Well, that should have been done as the Foundation is only left with....