It’s Time to Switch to Blockchain-Based Email Systems
Running email systems on Bitcoin’s blockchain technology is becoming increasingly imperative, as current email services are cumbersome and no longer secure. Indeed, email service providers are using obsolete technology that has become too vulnerable to ever-more sophisticated hackers. Replace Outdated Email Systems With Blockchain-Based Email. After....
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Bitcoin technology can completely transform the way you switch between email accounts, at least that's what Vitalik Buterin, the founder of decentralized applications platform Ethereum thinks. Vitalik believes that the concept of decentralization behind the Bitcoin technology could actually provide ownership of the email accounts to the users and not to the service providers. A speaker at the recently held FutureFest in London, Vitalik says that, "A blockchain is this magically decentralized computer that's going to keep running your program faithfully as long as it exists. You have no....
Some services in life are already automated, but there are still a ton of improvements to be made. Energy suppliers in the UK, for example, will now automatically switch customers to more expensive plans. The era of “fixed” fuel rates is coming to an end, which will affect tens of thousands of UK households over the next few weeks. However, if the customer fails to switch over themselves, they will pay an additional £186 fee. Instead of focusing on the systems that really need to be automated, energy suppliers in the UK are taking the wrong approach, with the sole goal of lining up their....
As the world goes through the digital era, more and more content has been put online. This has resulted in numerous data breaches across the globe, with email still being one of the most vulnerable due to middle-man interception. After the Yahoo email breaches, many have flocked to end-to-end encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram and iMessage, but can we redesign email services to eliminate these vulnerabilities? Several companies have decided to replace the traditional email system with Blockchains, allowing mail to be sent through a decentralized network such as....
Experts explain why blockchain-based systems are still more efficient then paper ballots or online voting systems The 2020 United States presidential election was met with an increase in mail-in ballots due to COVID-19 concerns. Yet while many Americans stayed away from polling stations this year, postal delays, rejected ballots, and other challenges emerged.Unsurprisingly, better ways for casting votes during major elections quickly became a hot topic of discussion. This has also led some in the crypto community advocating with renewed vigor for a blockchain-based voting system to be used....