Patrick Murck, until very recently, the Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, where he has served as General Counsel and continues to advise as it undergoes its recent changes. Though we chatted during and after the DevCore event, it was not until the after-party, where I managed to get some quiet time with him for a chat and an interview. How successful do you feel DevCore London was...
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...
Four months into his role as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Patrick Murck believes the organization has turned a corner. In a letter to CCN, Murck said the Foundation can meet its mission of promoting research and development of Bitcoin Core and advance the development of an open and participatory digital economy. He noted the Foundation was in a weak financial position when he...
After over two years of building the Bitcoin Foundation as part of the founding leadership and then as executive director, Jon Matonis decided to step down and submitted his resignation as executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, effective October 31, 2014 and as a board member effective December 31, 2014. His board seat will now be included in the January 2015 election along with board...