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Blockchain Voting

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Policy
Russia
Election Monitors Call Russia's Blockchain Voting a Black Box: Report
The Russian Central Election Commission won't allow observers to look under the hood of its blockchain voting system, experts say.
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By Anna Baydakova
May 14, 2021 at 6:20 p.m. UTC
May 14, 2021
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Podcasts
Bitcoin
Bitcoin News Roundup for Dec. 7, 2020
With the price of bitcoin struggling to break through $20K and a possible rollback of Trump-era crypto rules in the US, CoinDesk's Market's Daily is back with another crypto n...
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By Adam B. Levine
Dec 7, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. UTC
Dec 7, 2020
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Tech
Elections
New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes
An encryption inventor and the head of MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative are among authors of a new paper that points out why blockchain and voting are a bad pairing.
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By Benjamin Powers
Nov 16, 2020 at 5:01 a.m. UTC
Nov 16, 2020
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Markets
Blockchain voting
Digital Voting Is Coming. Let's Do It Right.
Cryptographic techniques, like zk-SNARKs and blockchains, could ensure online voting is secure and private.
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By Nathaniel Williams
Nov 10, 2020 at 6:27 p.m. UTC
Nov 10, 2020
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Markets
Overstock
Overstock Touts Voatz Blockchain Voting App as Solution to US Election Fracas
The comments come days before a ballot count marred in uncertainty.
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By Danny Nelson
Oct 30, 2020 at 6:09 p.m. UTC
Oct 30, 2020
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Policy
Russia
Russia's New Blockchain Elections Remain Centralized
There will be two blockchain voting pilots for Russia's off-year election next month.
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By Anna Baydakova
Aug 19, 2020 at 5:58 p.m. UTC
Aug 19, 2020
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Markets
Elections
US Postal Service Envisions Blockchain-Backed Mail-In Voting
Whether the USPS intends to experiment with its mail-in voting system was unclear Thursday.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 13, 2020 at 8:19 p.m. UTC
Aug 13, 2020
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Tech
Russia
Russian Voters' Data on Sale After Blockchain Poll to Keep Putin in Power: Report
Russians voted electronically, using blockchain tech, to keep Putin in power. Now, hackers may be selling the personal data of over a million of those voters.
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By Anna Baydakova
Aug 4, 2020 at 3:07 p.m. UTC
Aug 4, 2020
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Tech
Privacy
Bug in Moscow’s Blockchain Polling System Can Reveal How Users Voted: Report
The vulnerability allowed users votes in the recent constitutional poll to be decrypted, Russian journalists found.
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By Anna Baydakova
Jul 2, 2020 at 2:56 p.m. UTC
Jul 2, 2020
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Finance
Russia
Moscow Said to Hire Kaspersky to Build Voting Blockchain With Bitfury Software
Moscow's government is giving voters the option of having their ballots recorded on a blockchain despite transparency concerns.
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By Anna Baydakova
Jun 9, 2020 at 8:05 p.m. UTC
Jun 9, 2020
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