Former ENS director of operations remains at foundation after voting against ...
"For all the talk about credible neutrality and building infrastructure, this would have been the time to abstain, but he chose self-preservation," said DAO member Eric Hu. Brantly Millegan will be staying on as the director of the Ethereum Name Service Foundation after casting more than 363,300 votes against a decentralized autonomous organization proposal to remove him.According to a tally of roughly 3.7 million ENS DAO votes recorded at the end of the voting period on March 5, more than 1.6 million were against removing Millegan as director of the ENS Foundation — 43.39% of the vote.....
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“We can't let someone who is bigoted about a marginalized community stay the figurehead of a large web3 organization,” said ENS user healingvisions.eth. Many members of the Ethereum Name Service’s decentralized autonomous organization have voted in favor of allowing recently removed director of operations Brantly Millegan to stay on as the ENS Foundation director.According to a tally of roughly 2.4 million ENS DAO users recorded as of Thursday, more than one million are against removing Millegan as director of the ENS Foundation. The users account for more than 42% of the vote, with 28.61%....
The Bitcoin Foundation today announced to test its upcoming on-blockchain voting system on crowdfunding platform Swarm. As stated in the organization's latest blog, the aim of this project is to bring "greater transparency not the voting process", where every vote is recorded under a secure, cryptographic hash. The foundation however ignored to elaborate the insights of this project - explaining how different it is from the other decentralized voting platforms like BitCongress. Though a theoretically astound concept, the Bitcoin Foundation's voting system project still has taken a long....
The recent Bitcoin Foundation blog details how no candidate managed to reach the required quorum in the Bitcoin Foundation elections this month. What this means is that no one has yet been selected for either of the two individual Director seats. The election will, therefore, commence to a run-off, a second round of voting. Each registered Foundation member can vote on as many candidates as they wish, but a candidate is required to gain 50% approval to win a seat. You can read more about quorum and the bylaws amendments in our February article covering the election. The votes from this....
As an update to a post in mid-February that indicated a vacant industry seat on the Board of Directors of the Bitcoin Foundation was available, the Foundation has posted an update that indicated that two industry seats are now available on the board. Presumably, this is related to the recent forfeiture of the seat once occupied by Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox. On February 23rd, the foundation announced the Tokyo-based exchange (now under bankruptcy protection) had stepped down. In order to nominate a potential candidate, one must be an Industry Member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Nominees must....
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 fill two board member seats would be utilizing a new voting platform in co-operation with Swarm. "The Foundation's mission is to advance blockchain technology and this is an important new avenue of innovation," said Patrick Murck,....