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Re:You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain by village-idiot on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:36AM (#16438227)
Maybe for pointless votes like American Idol or Formula E fanboost that's fine, although it seems like massive overkill to me. You're still going to need to justify the energy bill/incentivize miners, and these systems have a central authority that could run a regular voting system anyways.

The issue I have with electronic voting of any kind is that it's a huge and valuable target, it's pretty much guaranteed that multiple hostile nation states will want to poke holes into these systems. Introducing crypto doesn't do squat to prevent all sorts of nasty problems, including information leaks and stolen private keys. Given what we know about how most people handle basic passwords, I think paper is probably the most secure form of voting we've ever seen.

Re:You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain by langitbiru on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:21PM (#16444200)
For us, American Idol is pointless. But for the singer who got robbed the championship, it's not. Yes, I admit the energy bill is part of the blockchain scalability issue. But blockchain is still in infancy. There is a room for improvement regarding the energy bill.

The political voting is a complex beast so I am not going to comment on it yet. My main focus is for the voting process like American Idol, choosing moderators in forum.

Re:You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain by village-idiot on Friday February 23, 2018 @09:53PM (#16451356)
Blockchain is nowhere close to its infancy. It's a 10 year old technology.