Thanks folks to anyone who nominated and supported me. Feel free to reach out with any questions… I know I dropped a loooong writeup above 
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I would like to nominate @coin_artist to council who has been a guest on many Tari Shows over the years and provided countless hours of advice to Tari Labs and Yat Labs.
Marguerite deCourcelle, known online as coin_artist, is an artist, puzzle-maker, game creator, and long-time crypto community member whose work has helped define the cultural side of decentralized technology.
From early Bitcoin art and crypto puzzles to experiments in NFTs, gaming, and community-driven storytelling, she has consistently explored how protocols can become more than infrastructure; they can become worlds people care about.
She brings a rare mix of creative vision, historical context, independence, and deep respect for open communities.
On the Tari Council, Marguerite would offer thoughtful judgment, a strong instinct for protecting community values, and a commitment to funding work that is imaginative, useful, and aligned with the spirit of the protocol.
The Tari protocol needs to become a cultural platform as much as a financial and dapp one, and coin artists can help steer us towards that vision.
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Supporting @kinkajou s, jagtechs and @profdiggity s nominations
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I want to submit my candidature for a council position. I’m Honey Badger, always thinking outside the box,
I used to have my own business for 8 years, I was making green screen paint for movies and publicity. With that experience, I acquired competence that could help Tari in future development. I started in the crypto world by mining Monero on a Mac Mini, looked around multiple projects to end up with Komodo as a moderator, beta tester and promoter.
I think of Tari as a business; we need to get revenue for future development, that’s why I propose to add to the wallet the possibility to send and receive Xtm with an email address, ( Add to the wallet the possibility to send and receive Xtm with an email address ) it will help bring new people who are intimidate with blockchain technology. People are used to email, and we should use that to our advantage. I suggest we use the other part of the closed project I mentioned ( Skiff – Private, Encrypted Email - Read more ) as a source of revenue to ensure the continuity of this project.
The update of the website is essential and should be maintained regularly with the help of members of this community, with news from our different platforms and activities, like the presentation for TIP. A web page should be dedicated to those events.
My latest idea is to offer a 5% annual reward, distributed every month for every user that make a transaction in the TU wallet, staking without the POS. Everyone likes to earn a little extra.
I’m always around Discord if you have any questions, and I hope I will be able to help Tari in this new adventure.
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I support Honey_Badger
Thanks everyone for the nominations! I know that many of you have known me since I began working in this industry nearly a decade ago, but many others here do not, so I suppose it would be prudent to “introduce” myself:
I am an entrepreneur, developer, investor, and early-adopter, having first discovered Bitcoin in late 2009. I had gotten really into Linux/OSS/programming a couple years prior and was fresh off my first teenage viewing of “Hackers” so the entire premise of p2p “digital money” was immediately appealing, but I was also drawn to the concept of proof-of-work/mining which I saw as a way to benchmark my overclocks and justify spending more money on computer hardware. I struggled to find any community, however, so after telling everyone I knew about it and getting laughed at/ignored I mostly sat on the sidelines until 2013 when I saw Bitcoin gaining more widespread adoption.
In 2016, a contractor working for my then-roommate overheard a conversation I was having and introduced me to a local business owner that needed some IT support. Over the course of the next year I helped him integrate E2EE into some of his business processes, during which he asked me a lot of questions about Bitcoin/cryptocurrency. At this point it occurred to me that this was something I could do full-time, so in 2017 that’s what I did.
I bought some ASICs/GPU with the money I made working for him, (re)taught myself how to code, and started a mining/professional services business which I quickly grew to 4 employees across 2 facilities. My interest in tokenization led me to projects like Ethereum and later Ravencoin. As Ethereum became increasingly hostile to miners, I began focusing mainly on RVN which placed more emphasis on proof-of-work and decentralization - the same values that brought me to Tari.
Over the next several years I led or was involved in several initiatives across various related projects:
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I’ve served as a community moderator/admin and developer meeting coordinator, where I helped maintain transparency and communication between the community, economic actors, core developers, and the foundation. This will be, in my opinion, an essential role of the council. And it’s important this happens in a way that doesn’t inhibit the Core Contributors from doing what they do best, while maintaining the standards that decentralized/community-led projects expect.
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I’ve run developer workshops, marketing campaigns, and bug testing campaigns, throughout which I have on-boarded dozens of new developers and hundreds of community members.
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I’ve coordinated developer fundraisers and exchange listing campaigns, raising many tens of thousands of dollars in funds for community-led initiatives (and safely custodying/delivering those funds).
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I’ve acted (and continue to act) as a trusted contact for pools, exchanges (from large Tier 1 exchanges to the very smallest), ASIC manufacturers, other economic actors, and legal counsel. I am familiar with various exchange listing procedures and compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
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I’ve helped to coordinate upgrades/forks for large decentralized networks securing over $1billion in value, and I understand the procedures/organization required to do this safely and securely.
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I’ve built/run mining and staking pools, giving me a strong understanding of the “blockchain fundamentals”, as well as business development insight.
My contributions eventually led me to be the fourth person (and second non-founder) invited to join the Ravencoin Foundation - which plays a similar but less involved role to the Tari Council, and I already have experience in many areas the council will oversee.
During my time here in Tari I’ve tried to get involved in various community initiatives, as others have noted above, and while my primary interest is in protocol research and core development so far most of my time has been spent working to improve community/developer outreach and engagement. I would like to be working on improving the privacy/decentralization of the network as those are my core values/interests, however, I recognize that I am more of a “jack of all trades, master of none” so I tend to go where I perceive I am needed the most and defer to those I know to be more knowledgeable in other areas.
It’s this combination of broad industry experience and self-awareness that I think would be a valuable asset to the inaugural council, which will involve a lot of delegating as part of establishing the Core Contributor program. My background is less Monero/Yat heavy, which is why many here don’t know me as well, but I think that having a variety of diverse perspectives would only benefit the Council.
Thank you again for your consideration and support,
kinkajou
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Thank you all for the nominations!
I realize I also haven’t written much about myself. My name is Fox. I believe in technology’s ability to explore ideas, ourselves, and the world around us. I also believe that the highest good is building tools and systems that free the individual and allow communities to build out of voluntary arrangements rather than coercive ones. Tari’s focus on privacy-preserving value transfer is a key tool in making the world a better place.
I am a seasoned software engineer and open source contributor. I am a Core Contributor in the Open edX project, a large open source project used by universities worldwide. Most of my career has been open source contributions and working within open source communities.
I’ve started my own business and have served on the board of a nonprofit. The business I run needs Tari– so I have every incentive to ensure it succeeds at its goals. I served on the inaugural board for a local convention that managed to launch in 2021, as the COVID pandemic threatened to kill it in its infancy, and continues to run to this day, growing every year.
The key skills I’m bringing to the table are the ability to develop processes that startup organizations need to succeed, executive experience running organizations, an even keel, experience with Open Source projects and how they operate, and software development experience.
Within this community, you are likely already familiar with my contributions. I spurred creation of this forum, scaffolded up the Tari Improvement Proposals, proposed the bounty system we now use heavily, and participate on the Tari show most weeks. These are manifestations of my ability to develop processes for organizations and communities to help them operate and grow.
I look forward to serving this community in whatever capacity I can, and thank you for your continued support.
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Self-nomination, which I’ll admit up front I hate doing. But the thread asks for it plainly, so, here is my best foot forward:
I’m Clayton Bittle, known around the community as @solix78. I’ve been here since the beginning: one of the earliest participants, among the top miners through test net, and around this community long before there was a council to nominate anyone to. In keeping with a privacy protocol, most of that participation isn’t the linkable kind. The airdrop leaderboard carries my real name for anyone who wants a public pin: https://airdrop.tari.com/leaderboard
Under the charter’s categories, I’m putting myself forward on Community and Ecosystem. My career has been spent at the intersection of real-world institutions and frontier crypto, with enterprise systems engineering before that. I led business development and sat on the council at NEM during its top-20 run, in rooms with governments and banks rather than only other crypto projects. I co-founded and chaired He3Labs, building enterprise blockchain middleware with fractionalized real-world assets as a flagship use case back in 2018, and I’ve spent the years since investing in and advising early-stage teams across the privacy space and the broader industry.
Why me: the charter says the Council should reflect development, infrastructure, community, and enterprise, and the enterprise seat is the one I can actually fill. Real-world, real-industry business development from outside the crypto echo chamber. I’m the guy that will take Tari to a copper mine, a bank, or a sovereign and come back with a deal.
Quixotic is a word that’s been used for my participation here, and I’ll take it. I’m in this for privacy, proof-of-work, and real decentralization, not the theatrical kind. If appointed, I’ll do what I’ve been doing all along, just with a seat at the table: and a real desire to do the boring but steady work that actually moves the needle.
Happy to answer questions.