Topic: BTCFoundation candidate for user choice, bitcoin development, privacy& anonymity - page 2. (Read 3234 times)

Cody means Cody Wilson ? That 3D printed gun guy ? Are u in touch with him ?

An actual candidate?

Cody means Cody Wilson ? That 3D printed gun guy ? Are u in touch with him ?

Really! You seek votes to keep TBF afloat, whereas I and Cody will run on the platform of dissolving it. Guess which one of us will garner more votes.

~Bruno Kucinskas

Really! You seek votes to keep TBF afloat, whereas I and Cody will run on the platform of dissolving it. Guess which one of us will garner more votes.

~Bruno Kucinskas

I've decided to run as an Individual Director for the Bitcoin Foundation.

My platform, in three simple points:

- Choice for the users.  Anything that does not provide or preserve user choice is a non-starter.
- Bitcoin development.
- Privacy and anonymity development using bitcoin.  Support for open source initiatives that accomplish this goal in bitcoin and in any distributed-digital currency that is supported or funded by the Board and is determined to be within the ambit of the Corporation's purpose.

Per current Bylaws, Article V, Section 5.3c:
"Individual Directors: Individual Members of the Corporation, voting as a class, shall elect three (3) directors known as "Individual Directors". Each Individual Member shall be entitled to nominate a single candidate in any election of an Individual Director and such directors shall be elected: (i) at a meeting of the members; (ii) by written ballot delivered to the members; or (iii) in some other manner authorized by law or these Bylaws."

So if you'd like to see me become an Individual Director, please either post a reply here on bitcointalk or send a message to the Bitcoin Foundation Board in which you state that you've nominated me.  However, it's my understanding that you can only nominate a single candidate, so please consider the matter carefully before you choose to nominate me.

In addition, apart from asking you to nominate me, I am hoping that a Board member will also offer to nominate me, so that I would have a nomination from at least one individual member and also from someone who currently sits on the Board.  (According to Bylaws Section 6.2, it's my understanding that a sitting Director is allowed to nominate me if they wish, as well.) If you are a member reading this, if you'd like, please ask a current Director to nominate me (in addition to you nominating me yourself).

Additional details about what I support:

- Listening to the users, as well as recognizing and including member and non-member input in the context of the Board's deliberations and decisions.  Enhancing communication and supporting education about bitcoin.  Greater transparency about what the Foundation is doing, through timely presentation of agendas before meetings and posting of minutes promptly thereafter.  No-one should have to wait weeks or months to know what the Board does.

- Decentralization, support for the Foundation in its present configuration as a recognized nonprofit, and support for proposals that would decentralize aspects of  the Foundation, including support for use and development of systems that would enable the userbase to collectively make funding decisions (to complement Board votes and decisions relating to funding).  Independence from regulatory efforts.  Focusing on expanding support for solutions based in technology (bitcoin development, decentralized exchanges, anonymity solutions).

- Initiatives that reduce possible coercion while preserving or enhancing the users' ability to voluntarily make decisions about their own resources.  No-one should ever be coerced or forced to provide funds to any organization or effort that they do not support, regardless of whether or not an organization claims a basis in law for its extraction of resources from the users.  Freedom to express ourselves as we wish across the blockchain.

-  I will vote against any Foundation proposal that would result in initiation, continuance, or expansion of support for:   
a.) Foundation lobbying (to Washington, D.C. or in any country where such lobbying activity would be proposed to extend to),
b.) proposals to regulate bitcoin users or their identities, and
c.) any effort, whether or not its proponents claim a basis in law, where evidence suggests that Foundation support for such an effort would result in user choice being impaired or limited.

You can also see a link to my Foundation forum post about this on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2leloz/im_running_as_an_individual_director_candidate/

I'll answer any question posted here (or on reddit, or the Foundation's forum).