Well said, and an interesting viewpoint. I encountered this yesterday on a previous post about the USPS filing a patent on a blockchain-based voting system. I t

Well said, and an interesting viewpoint. I encountered this yesterday on a previous post about the USPS filing a patent on a blockchain-based voting system. I tried to be very neutral (even adding the disclaimer that I think electronic voting is not a good idea), and yet I got quite a few downvotes without explanation. You can see the thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176151.