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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by tardo99 on Friday March 16, 2018 @09:09AM (#16600371)
Can someone explain to me how this works? Who are the miners? Where is the competition to mine blocks? How is the system distributed such that one entity can't back-propagate fabricated blocks into the chain?
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Re:Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election by Joool on Friday March 16, 2018 @09:21AM (#16600432)
In their whitepaper [1] they mention storing cryptographic proofs on the Bitcoin blockchain (Section 3). However they do not seem to specify what proofs exactly.

[1] https://agora.vote/Agora_Whitepaper_v0.1.pdf

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