You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain

Re:You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain by lalaland1125 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:08AM (#16438534)

If the voting is anonymised, then how do you protect against Sybil attacks?

When you think through this, every voting system has a weak link in terms of verifying who is a valid voter. So you must have a centralized authority here. Thus a blockchain is useless.

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Re:You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain by langitbiru on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:15PM (#16444175)

I edited my comment. I misread your question.

This is the hypothetical solution. Let's say there are 1000 voters. You premine 1000 coins then send it to each voter. Voter then can vote with 1 coin. So you can make sure the voting process is valid, and you can hide the sender in the smart contract. Of course, the technicality is not this simple. But you get the idea.

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