BUIP048: (passed) New Members for Election #5

[solex]

BUIP048: New Members for Election #5

Submitted on 9 March 2017
Voting date 10 March 2017

Summary

This BUIP lists the new membership applications for Bitcoin Unlimited which have been received since the previous membership BUIP voting day. New members are not able to vote on the current BUIPs, but will be able to in subsequent votes, provided that this BUIP is passed.

1. @jsmith_dev
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jsmith_dev
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/jsmith_dev/
Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith_dev
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-32805

2. @Windowly
Expired member reapplication
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-32968

3. @Wildfire.ca
https://www.reddit.com/user/WildFireca/
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-33342

4. @tkg
www.twitter.com/thekevgibson
www.reddit.com/user/c3vin
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-33387

5. @kyuupichan
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-33488

6. @Diestor
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-7#post-33845

7. @todu
http://reddit.com/user/todu
http://twitter.com/todu77
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2605
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-34058

8. @Jefferson Nunn
https://www.reddit.com/user/mindragon
Bitcoin Talk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=131102
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-34111

9. @Rhett Creighton
https://github.com/heyrhett/
https://www.reddit.com/user/everettforth
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=383711
https://twitter.com/HeyRhett
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-34224

10. @bitsein
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-34802

11. @cryosanth
https://www.reddit.com/user/cryosanth
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-34821

12. @marcus
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/how-to-get-involved.1871/#post-35328
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-35332

13. @Henry James
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-35386

14. @torusJKL
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=18980
https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=torusJKL
https://www.bitrated.com/torusJKL
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-35500

15. @CubicEarth
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=82210
https://www.reddit.com/user/CubicEarth
https://bitco.in/forum/threads/bitcoin-unlimited-membership-join-us.208/page-8#post-35515

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[AdrianX]

@solex do all votes need to be cast today?

 

[solex]

@AdrianX
no, the vote duration is 5 days. I have amended the vote thread to mention this now.

 

[digitsu]

Side node: how do we know that the people posting here are the people that are in the profies in Bitcointalk.org profile shots?

Are we going to enforce that they use the same private keys to sign votes as the one that they have in the Bitcointalk.org forum profiles?
[doublepost=1489336564][/doublepost]have someone confirmed all the twitter / reddit references? Via and ack/back like the kind they do on keybase?

speaking of keybase, maybe we should adopt a policy that members need to be on keybase.

 

[solex]

@digitsu This is our dilemma. How much is the bar to be raised for new members?
As far as checking the links, it is best for each voting member to do that themselves rather than rely on another to say all is OK.

 

[digitsu]

Well, *I* actually checked all the twitter references ;-) (all of the twitter references confirmed are geniune) But I if we get more than 15 member applications each time this is going to be a burden.
For the applicants which I could not verify the reference (for instance, if their references didn't provide enough proof that they were the same person as those references, I voted 'no' on. (sorry folks)

Thankfully this is a solved problem. Keybase.io is exactly such a web of trust identity validator. Perhaps we need to enforce that all members are on Keybase.io. (Keybase handles verifying twitter / reddit / webpages, PGP keys etc )


Apologies for those that I needed to vote 'no' on. It doesn't mean that we don't want your contributions to BU community and forums. It just means you will need to earn a bit more reputation (and get a member to vouch for you) before we allow you to participate in votes.

For those who run businesses, please provide company website link and preferably have a keybase.io id that verifies that website is indeed owned by you.

Cheers.

 

[Joel Dalais]

if in doubt ask person X to tweet/post that their application here is legit and to include a link to it in their tweet/post (tweets or post could also be pm's)

 

[digitsu]

until everyone is on keybase.io, manual tweet/post application acks is the best we can do to verify actual ownership of those accounts