Danish Political Party May Be First to Use Block Chain For Internal Voting
It's been said time and time again that the technology behind bitcoin, particularly the block chain, can go far beyond its use as a currency. One such use: voting. A report from website Version2 indicates that the Liberal Alliance in Denmark (a political party) will soon use the block chain for internal voting in Hvidovre, a suburb of Copenhagen. According to a translation provided by Reddit user 'Dymix', "It will happen at the next general assembly, later today." The cunning aspect of the technology, is that it is incredibly hard to change the existing content, since every new datablock....
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Max Kaye is an Aussie with a passion for Bitcoin. He is currently working to bring a novel political party, the Neutral Voting Bloc, into existence using the bitcoin blockchain turning it into a political party of the future. He occasionally writes in his free time on subjects within the union of computer science and economics. An aspiring social entrepreneur; Kaye seeks growth in culture and society over account balances, and looks forward to the novel opportunities afforded within a Bitcoin based economy, including exciting restructurings of society. Kaye describes the Neutral Voting....
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