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Discussion on: What was the most over-hyped software movement?

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Yet, tech like blockchain has amazing potential to reduce corruption and improve governance for countries and municipalities. It's too bad the hype is overshadowing this amazing ability.

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Ross Henderson

I've always wondered why governments don't use it in an online voting system. You could register your IP address up with something that identifies you in the gov database and use it for online voting.

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damian

Relevent xkcd

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

That rings true, but also there is the simple fact that online voting solves a non-existing problem.

Paper based voting is much simpler and works.

If it doesn't work in the US, do it like in the countries where it works, problem solved.