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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by EGreg on Saturday January 16, 2021 @09:27PM (#25807500)
Not that I know of. From the mainstream ones, Ripple and Stellar come the closest. MaidSAFE has been in development since 2006 and is launching soon.

What can I say, the first generation of any technology is laughably inadequate as a replacement for what came before. That is why for example hardlh anyone uses Bitcoin in everyday transactions and why we still don’t use technology to secure voting, but that will change. As an aside, I don’t think blockchain is the best technology for voting but it’s the buzzword that people understand:

https://www.coindesk.com/in-defense-of-blockchain-voting

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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by DSingularity on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:41PM (#25808187)
Literally nobody thinks Blockchain is good for voting.
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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by literallycancer on Sunday January 17, 2021 @11:09AM (#25811838)
It's not good, on the other hand it can easily be better than the monstrous only-working-by-accident software some government contractors can come up with.
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Re:Attacking the DeFi ecosystem with flash loans for fun and... by EGreg on Saturday January 16, 2021 @11:45PM (#25808220)
Perhaps that’s a bit too overstated?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-blockchain-voting-sys...

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