### Announcing the next BU Vote: 27 August 2018 ###

[solex]

Bitcoin Unlimited members are advised that the next vote on BUIPs will be open for 5 calendar days in the window 27-31 August 2018.

The close-off date for new BUIPs is 13 August 2018 to allow the minimum two-week period for membership debate.
Proposers of existing draft BUIPs are welcome to advise that their BUIP is ready for membership vote.

The BUIPs for vote will comprise:

• Development and/or Operational BUIPs listed below:
  
  BUIP069: Academic paper - Mining, Taxation and Public Goods in Bitcoin
  
  BUIP091: Move the official BU repository and issue tracker to GitLab
  
  BUIP092: Workshop on Instant Transactions for Bitcoin
  
  BUIP094: BCH November upgrade - Re-enable OP Codes
  
  BUIP095: BCH November upgrade - CHECKDATASIG & CHECKDATASIGVERIFY
  
  BUIP096: BCH November upgrade - Enforced lexicographic transaction ordering

• New Members BUIP
  
  BUIP097: New Members for Election #10

Note: The vote recording and counting system on the BU website will be used.
A "### VOTE ###" thread will be created on 27 August however, this will redirect members to the voting page on the website. Ideally, the vote thread will only be for Q&A and comments about the vote process.

edit: added BUIPs 94,95,96,97

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BUIP097: New Members for Election #10

 

[solex]

BUIPs 94,95 and 96 are added to the list because they are highly topical at the present time.
Note: these BUIPs are non-binding on BU development, they are to gauge the membership sentiment.

 

[solex]

Early Voting & Technical Issues​

The rules allow for early votes to be lodged with the secretary. This is in case of expected non-availability during the voting window.
In practice, this means recording votes here in a signed format, by replying to this thread: example from previous vote. Early votes can be lodged from today, as the BUIP list above is final.

This also applies during the vote if any technical issue affects a member voting via the BU website.

 

[torusJKL]

@solex will BUIP098 not be part of this voting?

 

[solex]

@torusJKL, fair question.
@theZerg, the BUIP098 proposer, has not yet indicated it is ready for vote.
I would also make the observations that there is a lot more membership debate to be had on it, especially as we haven't seen the officially released make-up of the nChain SV client which is significant in BUIP098's raison d'être. There is also a miner and development meeting on August 30-31 which may well conclude with a unified change-set.
So, I expect it will be submitted for the end-Sept/early-Oct vote.

 

[singularity]

I am currently in Tokyo and I don't have access to my voting keys. I have talked with @solex about this, and I am manually submitting my votes here.

Development & Operational BUIPs
BUIP069: -- reject
BUIP091: -- accept
BUIP092: -- accept
BUIP094: -- reject
BUIP095: -- accept
BUIP096: -- abstain

Membership BUIP
BUIP097: New Members for Election #9
1. imaginary_username -- yes
2. Shaun Chong -- yes
3. Open Mind -- abstain

 

[solex]

@singularity, thanks and noted. Please do add a signature for the vote text when you next have access to do so.
Also, can you paste it in this thread:
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/voting-is-now-open-for-buips-69-91-92-94-95-96-97.22441/#post-79744