After Technical Issues, Oliver Janssens and Jim Harper Win Bitcoin Foundation Seats

The results of the Bitcoin election run-off are in, and Oliver Janssens and Jim Harper are the newest members of the Bitcoin Foundation board.
The initial run-off vote took place using Swarm and the blockchain. It was an attempt at an innovative and potentially ground-breaking method of casting votes. However, the vote was plagued with problems, and anyone looking for an example of how blockchain voting could change the world is better off looking elsewhere.
The vote was ‘rebooted’ to their previous system, provided by Helios. Helios was always the backup plan, but blockchain enthusiasts are surely disappointed it came to that.
Janssens was the lead vote getter, with 63 % of members approving his inclusion. Harper came in second with 60 % of members approving his appointment.
Janssens is the more controversial of the two. This past summer he put up a US$100,000 bounty for software that could replace the Bitcoin Foundation’s perceived control over Bitcoin development. In announcing his win on Twitter, he proclaimed a mandate for big changes at the Bitcoin Foundation.

This post was published at Coin Telegraph on 2015-03-03.