Topic: Bitcoin Foundation Election - page 2. (Read 3053 times)

Couldn't agree more with this.
The core development team should've stayed as a quasi-organisation(?) independent of the Bitcoin Foundation. And I still don't realize why the Foundation as such, with all the - if I may say - random members, votes on the future of the Bitcoin protocol.
Someone said earlier: "It's voting with money". I think that it is, and could in extreme cases destroy Bitcoin (I may be exaggerating on this one).

No disrespect to you Gavin, but I was under the impression that the business owners around the world were the ones doing all of that, with the exception of funding development for the Core team. I'm a huge opponent of the Bitcoin foundation, so take my response as a tongue in cheek stab at it if you want. I just don't like the idea of some "official" people representing Bitcoin. I think you do a great job, and if the Bitcoin foundation was just the core developers, I'd be perfectly content with that. Sadly, the "CEO of Bitcoin to go to jail for two years" articles tend to pop up around percieved central authorities in Bitcoin. Obviously, I can't say that all of the Bitcoin foundation is bad, I respect a few people involved, but sadly I see most of the structure as a liability.

RE: can't wrap your head around what the Bitcoin Foundation does:

It is in big letters at the new https://bitcoinfoundation.org/ home page:


See the blog post from last month on the Foundation's "pivot" to focus on development and infrastructure:
  https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/everybody-pivots/

RE: "The Board appears to have not settled on an exact date":

Settled 11 days ago; see https://blog.bitcoinfoundation.org/elections-update/ for the exact dates for the two individual seats.

The election dates for the 'affiliate member seat' isn't yet set, the process for affiliate organizations to nominate and then cast their votes is still being worked out (and you don't need to care, unless you are part of the leadership of one of the Foundation's affiliate organizations and need to figure out how you and your members will come to consensus on how to vote).

I nominate myself! Just kidding, every time I think of the Bitcoin foundation, I imagine a bunch of kids playing in a tree house. I still can't wrap my head around what it is the Bitcoin foundation does. Sure it has some good people that do stuff, but wouldn't those people be doing the same things with or without the foundation? Just feels kind of wierd having people "represent" you, without knowing what it is they do or who they are.

Someone should be elected from this forum onto the board if you ask me.

The best that can happen now is a continuous stalemate where TBF sits inactive. What will probably happen is the industry directors will continue to control the direction of Bitcoin for their own ends because there will be a constant struggle between the individual directors.

Only good thing the Bitcoin Foundation did was promote Bitcoin to end users and media.
However, they are a centralized organization that ultimately decides what happens with Bitcoin.

thats exactly how I see it.

Anyone with money can join the foundation and has a vote. This election is effectively voting with money.

What are (almost) random people always in the list of nominees is my question?
I don't recognize anyone.

Hello~

I have a couple things to toss your way~

well, four really

1) I am running for an Individual Director seat and the election is in Feb 2015.  The Board appears not to have yeat settled on the exact date, but I think we'll know soon (grumpy sound from this corner about dates)

2) My platform is:  user choice (anything that doesn't have that is non-starter), bitcoin development, privacy & anonymity development (the last part being technical development(s) that have been already the subject of much analyses and development for some time ~ zerocash (yet to be released), sidechains, and all manner of things, much of which is yet to arrive in 2015 ~ I think we need to do a better job of opening up the door to being open to letting technology clear a path rather than making flawed assertions that policy and "governance" will somehow limit what we can do.  I would rather not imagine a 'rule,' but if you must, imagine one like that described by Frank Herbert, author of Dune, as 'Amtal,' in which something is tested (often to destruction) to determine its limits or defects.  Envisioning free associations and the decentralization of common notions of identity is the beginning of precursors to a society which can adequately explore our potential..

3) I have been recently inviting all the candidates to a Reddit IaMA / AMA which would occur sometime in January or early February and have also suggested that if they'd not rather then they consider doing their own.  Peter Todd has agreed to be mod for this one, I think, here is a thread on that: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2q6npv/transaction_fees_dont_help_anyone_is_it_time_for/cn46u4o
(I am pcvcolin on reddit)

4) If you are into microgiving and so on check out my project at http://abis.io or alternately check out something I've been toying around with relating to it (prototype, code not mine except for the commits that say abisprotocol in them somehow) at
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2q6npv/transaction_fees_dont_help_anyone_is_it_time_for/cn3ddbn
It bears repeating given the times we live in:
always look at the sigs in OP, check / double-check all relevant code, and check diffs and communicate with all relevant people using up to date gpg etc....

Have a great rest of 2014, see you in the New Year.

Not really. I'm only somewhat familiar with Cody Wilson and Bruce Fenton (from Bitcoin Association), the latter didn't nominate himself and probably not confirmed as candidate.

Apparently any member can nominate himself, so it's open for unknown people to candidate.

Dumb question, does anyone know any of these guys?  Opinions about them for this "job"?

He's on the list for the 'individual board member' (whatever that means):


https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1158-nominee-list-individual-election-2015/

Is not Cody Wilson among one of the contenders ?

https://twitter.com/radomysisky/status/546342430036217856

I suppose you could get a real candidate on their board and mix it up a bit.
I'll check my membership and see if I can vote.

So these guys in the Foundation need 3 new board members, and have set some kind of February date.

Some people are going to run on the importance of privacy, anonymous transactions and true Satoshi style blockchain operations.

Others are going to run on platforms of "Oh, you are here from the Gubbermint, I'm here to help."

hmmm....