[ad_1] It's only been a year since the cryptocurrency market exploded, reaching an unimaginable climax with the Bitcoin mania within it, but the current state of things is a bit different. Rising prices have stabilized while enthusiastic media, critics and holders once despise the market and exacerbate the inherent problems …
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[ad_2][ad_1] If you talk to electoral security experts (I have studied with many of them at a graduate school) they will tell you that we are not even remotely ready for online voting. "The vote on mobile is a horrible idea," said Joe Hall, an electoral security expert, when I …
Read More »Could Blockchain Voting Fix Democracy? Today, he gets a test run
[ad_2][ad_1] There is no shortage of debate on the role that technology has played in politics. From the misinformation spread through WhatsApp in Brazil to Facebook, which becomes a tool to incite hatred in Myanmar to the Cambridge Analytica scandal in the United States, many would say that technology has …
Read More »Experts discuss Blockchain and Democracy and the "freedom of money" at BlockShow Americas
[ad_2][ad_1] BlockShow Americas 2018 began this morning in Las Vegas, gathering over 1,500 attendees and 80 speakers from the blockchain industry in over 50 countries around the world to discuss the most interesting topics that affect the blockchain community. Today, the Main Stage focused on government initiatives, the impact of …
Read More »Dreams of democracy on the blockchain – Axios
[ad_2][ad_1] Democracy.Earth, an organization led by the Argentine activist Santiago Siri, invented a complex system, codenamed Sovereign, which would use blockchain technology to allow citizens to vote and govern themselves, according to a profile Wired. If the dream of bitcoin, the token generated by the blockchain of Satoshi Nakamoto, was …
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