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[Christoph Bergmann]

Hello Jonathan, welcome! I have always been a fan of what you are doing, and I remember having some of the most calm and reasonable discussions with you last week.

Still, I have to ask ... what do you mean with this

I feel it's about time I moved from curious bystander to a somewhat more participatory role ...

Why is it "about time"? Do you think you need to defend the principles of BU according to the roadmap of replacing developer's consensus with emerging consensus - or do you want to step in to vote for what the BCA just has announced? BU is or should be neutral in the ABC vs. SV war, and the membership is splittet over this question. So you should at least make your take on it very clear.

Another question: On the voting on BUIP101 two developers of ABC publically announced that they voted with "yes" with the intention to damage BU. The members of BU have the duty to vote with diligence due to what is best for BU according to the principles. The outcome of the vote should neither intent to damage BU as a software nor BU as an organization with democratic elements. Do you condemn such an absuse of voting rights?

 

[solex]

Welcome to the bitco.in/forum @Jonathan Silverblood, and good to see your application for membership. Thanks also to @jtoomim for seconding.
The next membership vote on BUIPs and new members is not yet fixed. I will advise here when it is.

 

[Jonathan Silverblood]

> Why is it "about time"?

I have run BU since before the S2X split and it is important to me, it represent sanity and a data-driven approach, where others seem to go by feeling.

> Do you think you need to defend the principles of BU according to the roadmap of replacing developer's consensus with emerging consensus - or do you want to step in to vote for what the BCA just has announced?

All actors in the ecosystem choose how to voluntarily participate by running software. I don't have any particular items I want to vote in, I just feel involved enough that I should've had my opinions voiced months ago already.

> So you should at least make your take on it [ABC vs SV?] very clear.

As I have stated elsewhere multiple times: If SV overtakes BCH in total accumulated proof of work, without resorting to attacks designed to destroy value (empty blocks mining, selfish mining, re-orgs, DoS), then I will personaly legitimize them as the Bitcoin Cash majority fork. I do not believe this will happen, and if it will I don't think I would actively contribute to them, but I will respect the outcome of nakamoto consensus and accept that ABC in that case would be a minority fork.

> Do you condemn such an absuse of voting rights?

Yes, I morally believe that to be abuse and I have no intent to commit such abuse.

The document (https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/BUarticles.pdf) states however that I should substantially agree with the Bitcoin Unlimited Vision [...] and that I should agree to follow the rules outlined in Articles 2, 3, and 4 for all matters pertaining to Bitcoin Unlimited.

It further states that I should recognize that becoming a member of the Bitcoin Unlimited Federation and simultaneously working to undermine the Bitcoin Unlimited Vision will inflict substantial harm [...].

My interpretations of those wordings is that what matters is good intent, and that there is some degree of freedom-of-belief when it comes to the nuances and practicalities of translating those ideas to a workable product/organization in the real world.

 

[Christoph Bergmann]

Thank you Jonathan!

 

[bitcartel]

I would like to renew my membership which lapsed recently. I originally joined in 2015: https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-2#post-5230. Thank you.

BU Signing Key: qpf3x6zxpnnrxzvq32029ut90nja29kd2yrndwllms

 

[solex]

@bitcartel
I am happy to second your application as a prior member of BU and a long time contributor to Bitcoin scaling discussions.

 

[rezzme]

Welcome, @Jonathan Silverblood -- been following your work from time to time, great to have you!

 

[solex]

The next BU membership vote commences 16 January 2019, so I will close off new member applications, for this vote, a few days earlier.

 

[Bagatell]

Given this - "I want BCH to split as soon as possible and into as many small parts as possible."

https://bitco.in/forum/threads/gold-collapsing-bitcoin-up.16/page-1346#post-86593

when do we start voting to remove members?

 

[solex]

Drawing a line here for new membership applications which will be considered in the forthcoming vote.
Subsequent applications will be put up for vote on the next occasion, which is likely to be March or April 2019.

 

[Jonathan Silverblood]

@solex can you please update me to use this key instead of the memo-controlled(!) one?:

1NWAbNx9sLceMRVR9E2SzMSVrjWajni21D

Thank you.

 

[maplesyrupsucker]

I am formally requesting to become a member of Bitcoin Unlimited.

Some of you may know me already. I got involved in Bitcoin back in ~late 2013. What interested me most was the idea of p2p cash permissionless cash. To this day that is what interests me most. I was a silent observer for years but as censorship and debate erupted around the need for bigger blocks and what appeared to be some dirty deals between Core devs and miners/business I felt compelled to get more involved. I'd like to continue that growth in involvement and offer off my voice and opinion on matters relating to BU.

I continue to stand by the principals of bigger blocks, more throughput, supporting business and global adoption, and making Bitcoin usable for the world.

I've been involved in:

2017 - Present - Co creator of txhighway.com - a visualizer of BTC vs BCH transactions

2017 - Present - Web design and Development contributor for bitcoincash.org, recently aided in the updated design

2017 - Present - Web Developer at bitcoin.com

2017 - Contributed some frontend work on localBitcoinCash.org

2017 - Present - I also help work on countless Bitcoin.com projects with other Bitcoin.com devs, including our wallet, Bitcoin.com pool frontend, bulk paper tips, buy.bitcoin.com, forum, notary, tools, bounties, and countless other web projects.

2018 - Contributed to frontend of MES - Memo Enhancement Suite for memo.cash - which has since retired.

2018 - Web design and development for Bitcoin Unlimited's Satoshi's Vision Conference (Tokyo) and contributor to Satoshi's Vision Instant TX Workshop (Italy)

2018 - Present - Regular co-host on Bitcoin.com's weekly Youtube Bitcoin News with Roger Ver (https://www.youtube.com/bitcoincomofficialchannel)

I've worked with members of BU in the past and hope that by becoming a member I'll be able to meet more of you. I'd love to add my voice to BU and the future of Bitcoin.

 

[imaginary_username]

@maplesyrupsucker would you post your public social media accounts, as well as a signing address?

 

[Mengerian]

I will second @maplesyrupsucker's application!

He worked with me to help put on Satoshi's Vision Conference in Tokyo, coming up with the awesome website design (https://satoshisvisionconference.com/previous/tokyo2018/), and he was also did many other invaluable contributions to making that conference a success.

He's working hard to help build peer-to-peer electronic cash that can scale to global adoption, and I think he would make a great BU member.

 

[maplesyrupsucker]

@maplesyrupsucker would you post your public social media accounts, as well as a signing address?

Sure thing:

Twitter @maplesyrupsuckr
Memo: @maplesyrupsucker

1DHqGgv6X9zPNpW2h3T8oWQi6b2gEdzNEz

 

[todu]

@maplesyrupsucker. Can you tweet a link to your membership application so that people can know that @maplesyrupsucker here in this forum is the same person as https://twitter.com/maplesyrupsuckr on twitter? And then add a link to that tweet in your membership application post here in this forum.

 

[lunar]

@solex

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Please accept my resignation from Bitcoin Unlimited.

It's been a privilege to have had even a small voice in shaping Bitcoins future.

I wish you all, Unlimited success.
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Signed:
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Thanks again, for everything, I'll still be around, to join in the discussions.

 

[maplesyrupsucker]

@maplesyrupsucker. Can you tweet a link to your membership application so that people can know that @maplesyrupsucker here in this forum is the same person as https://twitter.com/maplesyrupsuckr on twitter? And then add a link to that tweet in your membership application post here in this forum.

POSM -

 

[Mengerian]

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
I would like to officially resign my Bitcoin Unlimited membership.

Thank you,

Antony Zegers
aka
Mengerian
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https://medium.com/@Mengerian/why-i-am-leaving-bitcoin-unlimited-263f9c7a959b

 

[imaginary_username]

@Mengerian It's quite regrettable it has to come to this; many of the least productive are unfortunately also the loudest, creating a biased view of community sentiment. I myself still find what BU is doing very valuable towards our common goal, and I do wish to continue working with you, both at ABC and elsewhere. I don't think we got many more tries on this peer to peer electronic cash thing, after all.