The Israeli Bitcoin Association

[Meni Rosenfeld]

The Israeli Bitcoin Association is a nonprofit organization, founded in July 2013 and legally registered in March 2014. Its goal is to maximize the benefit that Israel's population gains from the Bitcoin technology.

Its homepage (in Hebrew) is at http://iba.bitcoin.org.il/.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

There was no post about the Israeli Bitcoin Association (henceforth IBA) so far, simply because by the time it was established, the Israeli Bitcoin scene was so big that global concerns such as this forum were not my main focus. But I think a post for it should exist, and I will try to update it with important events... Starting with the one in the next reply.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

The results from the 2014 elections to the IBA board of directors and audit committee are in!

113 registered members of the IBA have voted, which constitute 78% of a total of 145 eligible members. The number of votes that each candidate received is:


Board of directors:
94   Meni Rosenfeld**
74   Eden Shochat**
71   Ron Gross**
63   Gitai Zakh**
52   Eli Bejerano*
31   Nimrod Lehavi*
26   Nimrod Gruber*
26   Libi Koren
21   Yakir Ratner
17   Shalom Cohen
15   Alex Cohen
15   Amos Meiri
2   Roey Gorodish

Audit committee:
81   Jonathan Rouach**
75   Ofer Rotem**
53   Amichay Peretz Klopshtock*
31   Lior Tasman*

Candidates marked with ** will now enter their roles for a two-year cadence. Candidates marked with * will enter a cadence of one year. Ties were resolved with a lottery agreed on by the parties involved.

Congratulations to the winners!

[slaveforanunnak1]

"nonprofit"

[Meni Rosenfeld]

"nonprofit"

Nonprofit, yes. It's registered in Israel as an "Amuta" (עמותה רשומה).

[slaveforanunnak1]

"nonprofit"

Nonprofit, yes. It's registered in Israel as an "Amuta" (עמותה רשומה).

Oh well, hey now, if it's registered as derp derp that means they are definitely a "non profit"

[Muuurrrrica!]

it's about 5 minutes away from turning into an antisemit thread.

[Meuh6879]

Israel's population gains

Stop war ... first (supplyed by US navy armory facility).

[Brewins]

even FIFA is declared as non profit.

[fat buddah]

simply because by the time it was established, the Israeli Bitcoin scene was so big that global concerns such as this forum were not my main focus.

Of course all the jews got in early. What a surprise.  
An opportunity to milk some goyim: must have had explosive growth in isreal.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

Thanks everyone for reminding me why I don't spend much time on this forum anymore.

"nonprofit"

Nonprofit, yes. It's registered in Israel as an "Amuta" (עמותה רשומה).

Oh well, hey now, if it's registered as derp derp that means they are definitely a "non profit"

Legal registration status does not in itself indicate the core values, I'll give you that.

But if you had any idea who are the people involved, and how the IBA has been handled so far financially and otherwise... You'd feel really embarrassed about your asinine insinuations.

[bg002h]

The results from the 2014 elections to the IBA board of directors and audit committee are in!

113 registered members of the IBA have voted, which constitute 78% of a total of 145 eligible members. The number of votes that each candidate received is:


Board of directors:
94   Meni Rosenfeld**
74   Eden Shochat**
71   Ron Gross**
63   Gitai Zakh**
52   Eli Bejerano*
31   Nimrod Lehavi*
26   Nimrod Gruber*
26   Libi Koren
21   Yakir Ratner
17   Shalom Cohen
15   Alex Cohen
15   Amos Meiri
2   Roey Gorodish

Audit committee:
81   Jonathan Rouach**
75   Ofer Rotem**
53   Amichay Peretz Klopshtock*
31   Lior Tasman*

Candidates marked with ** will now enter their roles for a two-year cadence. Candidates marked with * will enter a cadence of one year. Ties were resolved with a lottery agreed on by the parties involved.

Congratulations to the winners!

Great election turn out! Love the lotto tie breaker (presumably works better in person!)

[bg002h]

Thanks everyone for reminding me why I don't spend much time on this forum anymore.

"nonprofit"

Nonprofit, yes. It's registered in Israel as an "Amuta" (עמותה רשומה).

Oh well, hey now, if it's registered as derp derp that means they are definitely a "non profit"

Legal registration status does not in itself indicate the core values, I'll give you that.

But if you had any idea who are the people involved, and how the IBA has been handled so far financially and otherwise... You'd feel really embarrassed about your asinine insinuations.

We have the same troll problem on another popular forum that I have the burden of running a small part of. Trolls are not to be taken too seriously. Just ignore and move on.

[FederalReserveofWIP]

The results from the 2014 elections to the IBA board of directors and audit committee are in!

113 registered members of the IBA have voted, which constitute 78% of a total of 145 eligible members. The number of votes that each candidate received is:


Board of directors:
94   Meni Rosenfeld**
74   Eden Shochat**
71   Ron Gross**
63   Gitai Zakh**
52   Eli Bejerano*
31   Nimrod Lehavi*
26   Nimrod Gruber*
26   Libi Koren
21   Yakir Ratner
17   Shalom Cohen
15   Alex Cohen
15   Amos Meiri
2   Roey Gorodish

Audit committee:
81   Jonathan Rouach**
75   Ofer Rotem**
53   Amichay Peretz Klopshtock*
31   Lior Tasman*

Candidates marked with ** will now enter their roles for a two-year cadence. Candidates marked with * will enter a cadence of one year. Ties were resolved with a lottery agreed on by the parties involved.

Congratulations to the winners!

Assuming that this is the same person (which I do not have direct confirmation of), I would like to lend my full support to Meni Rosenfeld based on his tireless and selfless voluntary contributions on another forum.  Assuming he is the same person, I have full faith in his sound judgment, selfless service and dedication to higher ideals.

In an online world that is frequently nasty, he has been consistently sane and reasonable, and a pleasure to interact with.

If I learn that this is not the same person I will update this note.

Best regards:

Chairman, Federal Reserve of WIP (name change pending this year), writing personally.

[Meni Rosenfeld]

We have the same troll problem on another popular forum that I have the burden of running a small part of. Trolls are not to be taken too seriously. Just ignore and move on.

Yeah I know, I'm not new to the interwebz I just don't remember this forum being this bad.

Love the lotto tie breaker (presumably works better in person!)

Probably, but difficult to arrange. I suggested a virtually-trustless hash-based cryptographic coin toss... But the candidates just asked me to toss a physical coin at the convenience of my home.