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U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept' (www.coindesk.com)
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The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways.

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How about we do this for voting?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

How about we only use blockchain for the use cases where it's an optimal solution.

If and when there are such use cases.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No. Keep tech away from voting. Software cannot be trusted.

You can't tell if the button you push is the thing being counted. You don't know if the version of the code on the machine is the one that was audited.

Paper. Ballots. Only