I’m happy to announce an important unanimous vote today at the Foundation – as of today the board has voted to retire the Founding Member Seat and replace it with an International Chapter Director Seat.

The Foundation is only a few years old, and in those years our landscape has become vastly different: quality investors, companies, entrepreneurs and individuals all over the world continue to show up, pitch in and help, and make this industry and movement something to be truly excited about. We are all far exceeding Satoshi’s hopes and deeply impacting some of the world’s great financial powers.

Adding direct representation for International Chapters on the board is, frankly, overdue. Making way for the Chapters to have direct influence at the Foundation is my pleasure and privilege – it’s extremely gratifying and humbling to think about how many people are working all over the world with similar goals and hopes to ours. I’m glad to have you with us.

Some Founders have been highly active and productive over the life of the Foundation, some have been intensely polarizing, a few of them are largely responsible for financing its operations. I hope you’ll join me in thanking them! They have all been united in wanting the best for the Bitcoin ecosystem as a whole, and I know that they are proud to see the organization mature with this move.

If you have been thinking of signing your local organization up as a Chapter, there’s still time to do it before elections; more details will be coming soon.

Let’s dig in – there’s lots to do!