:morshupls: me explaining how gaming, crypto, and ugly pictures of monkeys are actually a stable way forward for humanity and justify burning down the amazon rain forest.
Americans love central planning as long as it's by private corporations. This is evidenced by the support for nominally decentralized cryptos that are effectively controlled by a small number of centralized exchanges and mining pools.
It can be used to securely verify data you've put into a data pool. So checking to see if your vote is counted in an election would be possible.
This is the only use case of the Blockchain I can think of and any country willing to implement such a thing probably isn't actively attempting to suppress vote in the first place, it'd just be a QOL thing for voters. Not a big game changer or anything
This also has nothing to do with the currencies and shit, it's not something that drains a lot of power or whatever.
I'm afraid voting is not a good application for Blockchain. For people's votes to be secure, they need to be able to keep their keys safe, and end users are extremely bad at key management (and computer security in general), so some people's keys are inevitably going to be compromised. Given that, you then also need a system for verifying people's identities so that they can get their compromised keys replaced. And since identity is a social construct, that requires humans. So any Blockchain voting system would need to be backed by a ton of real-world infrastructure, and could potentially be so thoroughly compromised (as by e.g. a nasty computer worm) as to ultimately invalidate the results of an entire election.
All computer security experts recommend paper ballots for maximum election security; electronic voting is not a popular idea in the computer security field.
Edit: also, it's Blockchain itself that uses so much power (if using proof of work verification), not just the currency application of it
Oh no, I wasn't suggesting voting be done solely by it. I mean it as a way to view a record of your vote after it was done, you'd still need polls.
As far as I know there's less power consuming proof systems that can be used, but I don't really think any of it is necessary.
I'm just providing a limited use case of being able to view your data in an otherwise opaque process is a thing it could do, but its not really solving anything, just is a feature that it can provide.
I'm not arguing for it in the slightest and I agree with you here
:morshupls: me explaining how gaming, crypto, and ugly pictures of monkeys are actually a stable way forward for humanity and justify burning down the amazon rain forest.
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Americans are so allergic to any kind of centralized planning that they trigger the climate apocalypse instead.
Americans love central planning as long as it's by private corporations. This is evidenced by the support for nominally decentralized cryptos that are effectively controlled by a small number of centralized exchanges and mining pools.
It can be used to securely verify data you've put into a data pool. So checking to see if your vote is counted in an election would be possible.
This is the only use case of the Blockchain I can think of and any country willing to implement such a thing probably isn't actively attempting to suppress vote in the first place, it'd just be a QOL thing for voters. Not a big game changer or anything
This also has nothing to do with the currencies and shit, it's not something that drains a lot of power or whatever.
I'm afraid voting is not a good application for Blockchain. For people's votes to be secure, they need to be able to keep their keys safe, and end users are extremely bad at key management (and computer security in general), so some people's keys are inevitably going to be compromised. Given that, you then also need a system for verifying people's identities so that they can get their compromised keys replaced. And since identity is a social construct, that requires humans. So any Blockchain voting system would need to be backed by a ton of real-world infrastructure, and could potentially be so thoroughly compromised (as by e.g. a nasty computer worm) as to ultimately invalidate the results of an entire election.
All computer security experts recommend paper ballots for maximum election security; electronic voting is not a popular idea in the computer security field.
Edit: also, it's Blockchain itself that uses so much power (if using proof of work verification), not just the currency application of it
Oh no, I wasn't suggesting voting be done solely by it. I mean it as a way to view a record of your vote after it was done, you'd still need polls.
As far as I know there's less power consuming proof systems that can be used, but I don't really think any of it is necessary.
I'm just providing a limited use case of being able to view your data in an otherwise opaque process is a thing it could do, but its not really solving anything, just is a feature that it can provide.
I'm not arguing for it in the slightest and I agree with you here