Despite a weekend that is continuing to be painful across the crypto-sphere market, blockchain technology is definitely leaving its mark in ways that will pan out long-term.
Only a few days ago, I wrote of the first US-recorded real estate transaction taking place on the Ethereum blockchain. Yesterday, news broke of the first national election verified by blockchain in Sierra Leone.
The election was handled by Swiss startup "Agora", a blockchain-based voting verification service. There is some ongoing controversy as to the fairness of the elections, and investigations continue into scattered reports of polling violence. Several parties claimed the election was unfair, but that is something that takes places appoximately 100% of elections.
Generally speaking it is being heralded as a successful election by African-continent standards, with ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) noting the election was generally a success.
This was not a high-tech affair with users submitting votes online. Each vote was manually counted and verified by Agora employees on paper ballots before being entered into what Agora calls a "skipchain", or partially-public blockchain with only some, not all, transaction information available publicly.
This may not be a perfect solution, as it is still something that can be influenced, but it is clearly a step in the right direction towards actual public-chain election recording.
I'd love to see something like that happen on Steem...I think we might have one of the few chains that can handle the transactions!
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