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True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. The fact it's hard to not only implement correctly, but

True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. The fact it's hard to not only implement correctly, but to promote to society does not mean it's not relevant. Good things take time. Remember that people thought for some time that general relativity and the Law of large Numbers would never have practical applications.

shkkmo 9y ago
> True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. Full public transparency isn't that great a property of a voting system. And it's hard to call it a "legitimate use case" before it's successful.
- sametmax 9y ago
  Transparency of votes doesn't have to map to identity of voters. The blockchain is transparent, what you put inside is left to the implementer to choose. And come on, it's a highly experimental technology whise use cases impact the most controversial aspects of our society : money, vote, accountability, transparency, power to the masse. Of course it's going to take time and fail in many spectacular ways.
Sangermaine 9y ago
>True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. As always with these claims (that, as noted below, have not actually been implemented and so can only be speculated on), the question isn't whether this could be done with the blockchain, but rather whether this requires the blockchain to be done. All too often the claimed magical things the blockchain will allow can be implemented far more easily with other, existing technology. So far it's a solution in search of a problem.
- sametmax 9y ago
  Nobody is talking magic. We have a system with characteristics that maps to problems we wish to solve and we try to do it. Nothing wrong with that. The fact crypto is riddle with quick money making claims and project using the blockchain for sheer buzziness tends to make skeptics extra pessimistics in their views. It's unfair to the technology. We have a transaction oriented temper proof distributed transparent database. Those are objective features, and they deserve we give them a try.

shkkmo 9y ago

> True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. Full public transparency isn't that great a property of a voting system. And it's hard to call it a "legitimate use case" before it's successful.

sametmax 9y ago
Transparency of votes doesn't have to map to identity of voters. The blockchain is transparent, what you put inside is left to the implementer to choose. And come on, it's a highly experimental technology whise use cases impact the most controversial aspects of our society : money, vote, accountability, transparency, power to the masse. Of course it's going to take time and fail in many spectacular ways.

Sangermaine 9y ago

>True democratic and transparent electronic voting system is a legitimate use case for the block chain. As always with these claims (that, as noted below, have not actually been implemented and so can only be speculated on), the question isn't whether this could be done with the blockchain, but rather whether this requires the blockchain to be done. All too often the claimed magical things the blockchain will allow can be implemented far more easily with other, existing technology. So far it's a solution in search of a problem.

sametmax 9y ago
Nobody is talking magic. We have a system with characteristics that maps to problems we wish to solve and we try to do it. Nothing wrong with that. The fact crypto is riddle with quick money making claims and project using the blockchain for sheer buzziness tends to make skeptics extra pessimistics in their views. It's unfair to the technology. We have a transaction oriented temper proof distributed transparent database. Those are objective features, and they deserve we give them a try.