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Some people have been working on a liquid democracy [0] platform, allowing people to vote directly per bill or delegate their vote to a representative, which th
by mycall 6y ago
Some people have been working on a liquid democracy [0] platform, allowing people to vote directly per bill or delegate their vote to a representative, which they can change anytime they wish.
This is a technology problem to solve as distributed zero-trust isn't an easy problem to scale. Some attempts have been with using cryptocurrency per vote, but I haven't seen anything new in a few years.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy#:~:text=Liquid%20democracy%20is%20a%20form,or%20proposed%20popular%2Dcontrol%20apparatuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy#:~:text=Liqui....
- bcherny 6y agoZero trust + distributed consensus seem like overkill for this. Why not use the govt as an authoritative record keeper?