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[ad_2][ad_1] In Wednesday’s meeting between Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani and Republican senators in the Pennsylvania legislature about potential voter fraud in the state, a state senator suggested blockchain as a potential cure for the kind of voter fraud that is alleged. . A company called VOATZ has the technology …

[ad_2][ad_1] Last week “Blockchain This Week” talked about how security risks can persist even with blockchain-based voting systems, as highlighted in a report prepared by MIT researchers However, some researchers continue to argue that blockchain technology could be the answer to many of the concerns raised about voting methods prevalent …

[ad_2][ad_1] The 2020 U.S. presidential election was met with an increase in mail order votes due to concerns about COVID-19. Still, while many Americans stayed away from polling stations this year, postal delays, rejected votes, and other challenges emerged. Unsurprisingly, better ways to vote in major elections have quickly become …

[ad_2][ad_1] In the wake of Utah making history with blockchain voting during the 2020 presidential election, some security experts have increased their criticism of the idea. Earlier this week, a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a draft of a paper titled Going from bad to worse: from …

[ad_2][ad_1] In the letter In a recent draft of a new paper, a team of MIT scientists said voting on the blockchain is insecure and error-prone. Pete Martin, CEO of a blockchain-based mobile voting company called Votem, has some thoughts. He suggested that the concerns in the document focus on …

[ad_2][ad_1] Security risks may persist on the internet and blockchain-based voting systems, a study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found. Blockchain-based voting systems were believed to be a relatively safer tool for conducting elections, immune to the risks associated with other methods The MIT document is titled …

[ad_2][ad_1] Waves Enterprise, the business-focused spin-off of the Waves project, has announced the public release of its blockchain voting system aimed primarily at corporations and board governance. The Waves system uses the blockchain at every stage of the voting process, as votes are recorded and then counted with full cryptographic …

[ad_2][ad_1] Blockchain and cryptocurrency, fraud management and cybercrime, fraud risk management Researchers say blockchain presents more problems than it solves Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • November 17, 2020 Blockchain technology, for all its cryptographic intelligence, has often been derided as the solution it’s looking for a problem. See also: Ignite ’20: …

[ad_2][ad_1] Source: Aleksandra Sova – Shutterstock Research from MIT and Harvard concludes that a blockchain-based voting system would pose more security concerns than the existing system. Cardano’s inventor, Charles Hoskinson, refutes the research findings. IOHK CEO and Cardano inventor Charles Hoskinson has released a video that refutes the findings of …

[ad_2][ad_1] Blockchain voting is an incredibly stupid idea for a variety of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why is blockchain voting a stupid idea? I’m glad you asked. For beginners: It does not solve any problems that civil elections actually have. It is fundamentally incompatible with “software independence” …