The Counterparty Foundation is announcing the start of the two-week long voting period for the election of three community directors. Since voting is starting three days later than announced, we will extend the voting period till block 352718 (in about 2 weeks).
There has been a change in the voting procedure. Few months back we’ve disabled sending dividend payments based on XCP balances to avoid spam (see: counterparty-core/counterpartylib/lib/messages/dividend.py at master · CounterpartyXCP/counterparty-core · GitHub). However, since Counterparty is a decentralized system, this means we have disabled this feature for ourselves as well. Therefore, we won’t be able to implement the announced voting procedure based on dividend payment. Instead, voting will be based on broadcasting votes. Details are outlined below.
Start and End of Voting
Start Block: 350710
Start Date: April 5th, 2015
End Block: 352718
End Date: approx. April 18th, 2015
Candidates
Devon Weller - Bio
Robert Ross - Bio
Chris DeRose - Bio
JP Janssen - Bio
Voting Procedure
Users who want to give their votes to one or more candidates may do so by broadcasting a message with the following parameters:
- text = XCPELECTION + Candidate Number
- value = votes
For more information on how to publish a broadcast read our Broadcast Tutorial.
NOTE: There is currently a one-broadcast-per-block limitation when using Counterwallet. If you want to publish multiple votes, please wait while the block containing your first broadcast is published on the blockchain and then create the second broadcast.
Support
Please use our Q&A thread for any questions or issues related to voting: [Q&A] Counterparty Foundation Voting Q&A
Rules
- One user can make several broadcasts
- The sum total of the values must be less than the balance of the
source address at the close of the voting period
Valid Example
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User has 50 XCP in his address at the end of the voting.
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User broadcasts: text=
XCPELECTION 1, value=20 -
User broadcasts: text=
XCPELECTION 2, value=30 -
Both votes are valid and will be taken into account
Invalid Example
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User has 50 XCP in his address at the end of the voting.
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User broadcasts, text=
XCPELECTION 1, value=50 -
User broadcasts, text=
XCPELECTION 2, value=30 -
The second vote is invalid as the user already spent 50 XCP in his
first message
Candidate numbers used as the broadcast parameter:
1 - Devon Weller
2 - Robert Ross
3 - Chris DeRose
4 - JP Janssen
At block 352718 we will count all votes and announce the names of the top three candidates.
The public scoreboard displaying current rankings is available on Blockscan at https://blockscan.com/vote/XCPELECTION.
Good luck to all the candidates and once again thank you for your support!