▲ 121 ▼ U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept' (www.coindesk.com) submitted 1 year ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments The U.S. Department of Commerce said it issued its gross domestic product data via nine blockchains, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto-world pathways. archive: https://archive.ph/RDgRJ
[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (3 children) How about we do this for voting? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago How about we only use blockchain for the use cases where it's an optimal solution. If and when there are such use cases. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) No. Keep tech away from voting. Software cannot be trusted. You can't tell if the button you push is the thing being counted. You don't know if the version of the code on the machine is the one that was audited. Paper. Ballots. Only permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago https://xkcd.com/2030/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago How about we only use blockchain for the use cases where it's an optimal solution. If and when there are such use cases. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) No. Keep tech away from voting. Software cannot be trusted. You can't tell if the button you push is the thing being counted. You don't know if the version of the code on the machine is the one that was audited. Paper. Ballots. Only permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago https://xkcd.com/2030/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago https://xkcd.com/2030/ permalink fedilink source parent