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There are 5 days left before voting ends for the Bitcoin Foundation Board Individual Seat. Adam B. Levine, of Let’s Talk Bitcoin, has collected interviews from all candidates that he could reach and transcripts of those interviews can be accessed by clicking the candidates listed on this page.              

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give  a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Luke Dashjr: My name is Luke Dashjr, and I hope to improve openness within the Foundation, as well as discourage it from taking direct control over Bitcoin resources, but rather work by supporting others who are really responsible for making Bitcoin successful. LTB: Why do you want to serve on the Foundation Board? LD: I think that with my technical background and exposure to a wide variety of Bitcoin communities, this will be the best way I can help Bitcoin even further along. LTB: What makes you qualified for the position? LD: In the past three years, […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Ryan Deming: My name is Ryan Deming. I have a JD MBA from USC, University of Southern California. And I am the managing partner of a commodities trading advisor, or CTA, which is located in Los Angeles. I have about 10 years of experience as a registered investment advisor, or RIA, and as a CTA, which means that I have about a decade of compliance experience dealing with regulators and exchanges, broker dealers, futures commissions merchants. And I think that strongly differentiates me from other candidates. My goals are as follows. First, I want to convince the […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Noah Silverman: Hi my name is Noah Silverman. I’m a data scientist and a dot com entrepreneur. I see great potential in the future of Bitcoin and look forward to representing the community. LTB: Why do you want to serve on the Foundation Board? NS: I’m very excited about the future of Bitcoin and all of the great things it brings. And I believe my skill set would contribute significantly to the growth and stability of the community. LTB: What makes you qualified for this position? NS: I started developing internet companies and working with technologies back […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Dmitry (Rassah) Murashchik: Well, I’m Dmitry Murashchik. I’m known as Rassah on the forums, reddit, and pretty much everywhere else online. I’ve been into Bitcoin since Spring of 2011. I’ve been mining since about the Summer of 2011 until just a few months ago when it became unprofitable. I also sell through localbitcoins throughout the Baltimore/D.C. area, and I participate in meetups with locals. I’m also the guy who has a Prius with the Bitcoin license plate, which has been great at getting people to come talk to me and ask questions. I also try to live as […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Elizabeth Ploshay: My name is Elizabeth T. Ploshay and I am running to represent you and the Bitcoin community on the Bitcoin Foundation board in the open individual seat. Having previously served as a scheduler and Middle Eastern policy assistant for a US member of Congress I am now privileged to work alongside the Bitcoin Magazine team as the Manager of Communications. With a background in public policy and a keen desire to promote limited government and free market principles, I am fascinated by the multiple opportunities Bitcoin peer-to-peer currency has to offer. As your representative on […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Joerg Platzer: My name is Joerg Platzer, I am a founding member of the Crypto Economics Consulting Group in Berlin which aims to smooth our society’s transition to a crypto economy and to roll out Bitcoin in the real world and I run ROOM77, the first bricks and mortar business in the world that accepted Bitcoiln and which is nowadays a meeting point for Bitcoiners, Cypherpunks and Cryptonerds from all over Europe and even the world. I am financially independent and politically neutral. I am running for a seat on the board of the Foundation because I […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Trace Mayer: I’m Trace Mayer. I’ve been involved with Bitcoin for a long time. Actually, Jon Matonis and I started our Bitcoin blogs within about a week of each other. We’ve been major thought leaders together in this new space. I’ve written a Bitcoin beginners guide, authored a lot of the Bitcoin FAQ. I’ve had several national level media appearances already. So you can review and [look at] how I perform there. Whether it’s Fox Business, Colbert Report, BBC News Night with Jeremy Paxman, and plenty of others. I’ve also been invited to speak on Bitcoin. This […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Aaron Lasher: My name is Aaron Lasher and I would be the most staunchly negative member on the board, possibly in the entire Bitcoin Foundation when it comes to financial regulations. I understand this is a bit of a strong standpoint. So, for that reason alone I don’t necessarily expect this [audio drop] of the Bitcoin community. But I think it’s important for them to have that option. You know, if they want someone who is always going to be the grump in the room who says, ‘No. We should not do this. We should resist these […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Christian Kammler:  I’m Christian Kammler, 35 years old, coming from Germany and running for the Individual Seat of the Bitcoin Foundation. I am doing this because nearly every aspect of human life is related to money and sometimes to the absence of money. And money is complicated and if we will tell our grandchildren in 40 years how the financial system worked in the early 21 century they will most likely not understand us, because hopefully it will be better and far more easy. From my point of view, Bitcoin is one of the biggest change management projects […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Duncan Goldie-Scot: My background is as a financial journalist, and then publisher, and  entrepreneur. I started various magazines in the financial technology space, so global magazines, and built up a publishing company. I trained as an economist and my interest has been, since then, really in payment systems, and civic society. Since 2007, I’ve focused on development projects in Africa. And I was largely taken there by the success of the M-Pesa mobile payment service, which is now used by about 80% of the population in Kenya. I knew the people who designed that, and I’ve written […]

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Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please introduce yourself and give a brief overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Nilam Doctor: I am Nilam Doctor from India. And also [couldn’t understand] Mauritius. I’m a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation, an expert in IT security, and have been a strategic advisor to organizations with regard to IT technology and education. I’m currently developing a couple of Bitcoin projects with missions to make the [couldn’t understand] currency grow into a viable mainstream currency. First, I’m developing DreamCoins a local digital currency headquartered in Mauritius. Second is a virtual currency exchange established only for the UK right now. I’m a lead developer for this exchange. We have full […]

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How Bitcoin Spreads Violate a Fundamental Economic LawForbesIf you click over to Mt. Gox, the most famous bitcoin exchange, one unit of the crypto-currency will set you back $145. But at Bitstamp you would pay only $129. (At time of writing; prices can…

Adam B. Levine (Let’s Talk Bitcoin): Please Introduce Yourself and Give  a Brief Overview of what you hope to accomplish with your candidacy. Ben Davenport: My name’s Ben Davenport. I live in Palo Alto, California, and currently work as a software engineer for Facebook. I’ve been working in software engineering in one form or another for the past 16 years, including stints at Microsoft and Google. Most recently, I co-founded a mobile messaging startup called Beluga, which ended up getting acquired by Facebook and turning into Facebook Messenger. I think the Foundation is playing a very important role at a time that’s somewhat of an inflection point for Bitcoin, which is why I think it’s important we have a strong […]

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