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It can still be used that way. While most people talk about how corrupt politicians enrich themselves with fake currencies, more legal and legitimate uses can still use decentralized ledgers for useful things. Of course these won’t make headlines.
Yes, exactly.
Block chain would have been an amazing solution to most democratic vote validation processes.
It can still be used that way. While most people talk about how corrupt politicians enrich themselves with fake currencies, more legal and legitimate uses can still use decentralized ledgers for useful things. Of course these won’t make headlines.
There are far better global ledger approaches than blockchain.
I believe you, but can you name one so we can all learn more about the alternatives out there?
SWIFT is the easy one. Fun fact they looked into blockchain at one point and went “yeah, nah”
I thought Swift is currently Block-Chain based. Do you mean this Swift?
I meant the true and proper SWIFT that is used by almost all financial institutions for transferring funds.
Aren’t votes meant to be anonymous to avoid retribution?
Isn’t the public ledger identifying information to be used by authoritarian violence on every single voter in that case?
Proposed ideas for block chain to maintain election integrity would only use a block chain ledger to verify counts, not store voter information.