Iceland’s Pirate Party Could Win Parliamentary Elections, Benefiting Bitcoin, Auroracoin Adoption
Iceland’s Pirate Party may very well win the national elections on Saturday. According to recent polling, the Pirate Party, which stands for internet and financial freedom rose to fame employing swarm activism tactics, ranks as high as 22.5%. Meanwhile, the conservative Independence Party is polling around 21-23%, while its coalition partner, the Progressive Party, only garners 9%, and will likely lose its ruling status. Last year the Pirates polled even higher, as high as 35%. If the election were held at that time, the party would have easily secured enough seats in parliament to....
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Iceland’s Pirate Party was the subject of several news bulletins regarding its run in last Saturday’s elections. Granted the party achieved major success, members of the group would make up nearly a third of the parliamentary seats. The elections have come and gone, and while many consider the Pirate Party to be the subject of shortcomings, the organization has still managed to achieve success in an otherwise biased election. The Pirates have earned a total of 14.5 percent of parliamentary control. This brings their number of seats from three to ten. It’s not exactly what members had been....
Iceland’s elections will take place on October 29, which will be an important day in history for the nation. Assuming the Pirate Party becomes the biggest party, they will need to create a coalition. Things are getting very exciting over in Iceland, where the local Pirate Party is gaining a lot of momentum for the upcoming elections. What makes this group of like-minded individuals so impressive is their favor for Bitcoin as a payment method. They also want to grant Asylum to Edward Snowden, and clean up the corruption in the country. Iceland is due for new governmental elections very....
The leading light of Iceland’s Pirate Party, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, has declared that “privacy is dead” after securing the power to form a government in a world first. Talks between Iceland’s major political parties following October’s elections failed to produce a viable government. Guðni Jóhannesson, the incumbent president, met with Jónsdóttir on Friday to hand her the mandate to form an alternative coalition. ‘We’ll Never Reclaim Privacy’. The Pirate Party came third in the election, claiming 14.5 percent of the total vote. Speaking to the BBC in an interview following the landmark....
If you're a citizen of Finland, this weekend presents you a chance to vote in favor of the Pirate Party of Finland (Piraattipuolue) in the Finnish Parliament election, which occurs on Sunday. The party is a member of Pirate Parties International, and has long accepted Bitcoin donations. Last month, the party received more than 10,000 euro in bitcoins (the party received 4,000 euro in donations through all channels in 2014.) The Pirate Party has included cryptocurrencies in their party program, and, in spite of its incipience, has grown to become the biggest party outside of Parliament at....
Resurgent regional cryptocurrency Auroracoin debuted Iceland’s first-ever cryptocurrency exchange, ISX, allowing the people of Iceland to trade Auroracoin and krona. This week, the Auroracoin Foundation debuted ISX.is, Iceland’s first cryptocurrency exchange. ISX allows the citizens of Iceland to trade króna for cryptocurrency, in this case Auroracoin. Amid a renewed set of financial scandals in Iceland exposed by the Panama Papers, Auroracoin has made a comeback. For the last year, the Auroracoin Foundation has made significant adoption pushes including a brand awareness advertising....