It's the moment to ask the public again. First of all, treat me like I’m 5 because I just started to scratch the surface about a week ago, regarding BTC and what it might mean.

Now let's see if I got it right. Would Blockchain, or something similar, serve as a tamper-proof voting system? With access to everyone, no more staying in line, not counting if you temporarily went for a quick tan in Antarctica and so on.

If the answer is yes… Wouldn't that cause the people to be able to vote for a lot of other stuff, even in more trivial matters? Because it might scare the shit out of politicians. I was thinking about Switzerland where people vote once in a blue moon for issues that are not common in any other countries and the first thought was that they afford the costs, at least compared to most of the countries, but I still thought that at some point it can become annoying for voters to spend more time than needed to get to voting booths and so on. But if you have an app on your mobile phone…

So, where am I hallucinating?

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Short answer: Bitcoin's blockchain is tamper-proof, so yes, it could be used for that.

The missing piece is linking digital identity to physical identity and location (which I believe nostr can solve). Need to have a system running on top that verifies one vote per human and validates they are a valid voter and identifies their jurisdiction. The degree of accuracy required would have to scale against the importance of the vote (ie. Voting for president vs voting for dinner plans)

Blockchain is a bullshit word...you don't need it to make a voting system, and/or can't because it can't scale, and you'll always need a third party anyway to be sure that the voters are correctly registered in the voting lists.

Maybe just to anchor the final result but even for that I'm not sure it's absolutely needeed.

The only interesting use case of this temper proof ledger is for Bitcoin and unstoppable money