First Country To Use Blockchain For Presidential Elections Is Sierra Leone - And It Happened Yesterday
If you're not living in, or around, Sierra Leone, then you probably don't know that the country recently held presidential elections. And by recently I mean yesterday.
There were 16 candidates, a heated campaign and, floating way under the radar, a blockchain-powered election process, implemented and supervised by a company called Agora. It used a proprietary, permission-based blockchain to count and validate the votes in real time, setting up a world's first.
If you're interested in a detailed story about this, including the entire political and social background, then Coindesk has a nice report for you.
As for me, I'm pondering how long until permissionless blockchains - a.k.a. decentralized blockchains - will be used for elections in Western countries as well. Or not only for elections, maybe even for real-time governance.
I have a hunch that it will happen way sooner than the politicians would expect...
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Decentralized blockchains are the only way to go, these permissioned blockchains are no better than standard databases, and in some cases even worse.
This is a real milestone achieved by the blockchain till today. Very soon other countries also will implement it .
Like I ever believed, blockchain coming into play at a pace faster than ever....
This is something i wish my country adopts. Elections here happen through EVM's. Some opposition parties accuse the ruling government of hacking into them. These accusations happen mostly when the votes go to only one party even when one is casting vote to other part candidate.
Omg this is great, no doubt crypto is our feature and is growing quickly Thats why new countries using new ideas with the block chain
So, how do you feel about the balance of storing biometric data for voting in blockchain and people wanting anonymity with their cryptocurrency purchases?
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Different goals, different blockchains.
So, you probably won't be picking up any "Sovereign" coin from The Marshall Islands Republic, which plans on doing both with their blockchain and coin.
That's an interesting discussion. But I think it all diverges when you put "anonymity" as a pre-requisite. Maybe not every person would want that. Have you thought about it?
Or maybe there will be new mechanisms for protecting identity while still maintaining anonymity. At the end of the day, you need to know if at the other end of a transaction is a bot, or a real person, wouldn't you? So identity would be needed and identity shouldn't necessarily impact privacy.
It does seem to be a tough balance. How do you verify security without verify the human aspect of the transaction?
Omg this is great. I know about Agora . To see that they have been able to achieve this feat is amazing. What even promoted them to decide to use Agora? Was it politically influenced or are they just begining to accept blockchain whole heartedly.
This is interesting. The fact that it comes from a West African country makes it spectacular
This is how you know crypto is the future , new countries using new ideas with the block chain
thanks for sharing this, wonder who might be next?