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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by zbentley on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:49PM (#16625313)
> Blockchains have the potential to remove all doubt.

Secure cryptography and other algorithms that verify authenticity have the potential to remove all doubt. Blockchain has very little to do with it.

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Re:Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in ... by darawk on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:26PM (#16625515)
Yes, but blockchains are a particularly suitable form of this technology, because they are decentralized. Not in the sense that people normally mean, mind you, but simply because they allow the unsynchronized, simultaneous submission of votes from around a country in a technically convenient way.
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