Blockchain: so much bigger than bitcoin…
by Ian Tucker from Technology | The Guardian on (#3EFFP)
From voting to healthcare, music to energy production, blockchain may just change the way we run our lives
A blockchain allows the authentication of transactions without them needing to be administered or guaranteed by a central authority. Ballot boxes and current online voting platforms are vulnerable to manipulation; now a startup called Follow My Vote is developing a blockchain-based system to ensure security, transparency and mathematically accurate election results.
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