Below you'll find a list of all posts from December, 2014
Well it has started! A blockchain based rewards program has begun. With many different avenues in business finding a usability for blockchain technology should bring the usefulness to the front of American naysayers. The main issue with the public is the hurdle of trust. As we as a nation begin to utilize this technology we will surly see that the …
BitCoin and blockchain technology are full of extremely technical aspects and jargon, we understand completely that much of it is difficult to follow if you are not tapped into the industry directly. This article summarizes a summit that is being held to push the envelope on blockchain technology and Bitcoin. The summit will allow for industry leaders to come together …
Last week, Follow My Vote attended the California Joint 2014 New Law Workshop hosted by the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO) and the County Recorders’ Association of California. As an exhibitor, Follow My Vote held a table for the first two days and displayed various brochures and literature about our online open source voting platform. On the …
Could we make blockchain technology useful in international banking? While the very same technology could play a major part in voting in America it has many more applications than one may realize. 3 major international banking corporations are giving block chain technology a serious look to speed up international monetary transfers, This is a great start for the technology and if …
Readers, the moment has arrived. Over the last ten days, we at Follow My Vote have been providing you with just a smidgen of examples of various problems that have plagued online voting in the past. While the initial readings probably left you with a sense of, “Wow, then how can we hope for this to ever work,” this is …
Bitcoin may be a thing of the past but the blockchain is here to stay. Blockchain technology is posing as the new front runner for digital exchange, and not only with voting. When introduced, Bitcoin mining was something any coder or developer could easily do to make an extra buck. But as Bitcoin grew and matured the competition of mining …
Readers, we just want to start this post off by saying thank you for keeping up so far, it is your continued interest that drives us to keep going, and for that we are truly appreciative. Until this point, we have been covering the issues that online voting has endured to this point, but now we’re going to turn the …
Readers, thank you for joining us for Part Three of Follow My Vote’s Road to California series. Last time, we had a look at some of the efforts our neighbors in Estonia and Norway had taken, and while there has been a moderate amount of success, the processes are still highly flawed and open to scrutiny. None of these scenarios …
Welcome to Part Two of Follow My Vote’s look at some of the online voting systems that exist in the world today. In our first part, which can be found here, we took a look at some of the systems that had been cooked up in the good ol’ United States. Now, it’s time to cast our gaze outward, and …
The 21st century has seen the rise of some amazing new technological developments, this is a fact that can not be denied. In fact, it is growing at a nearly exponential pace, an idea first presented by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. Think about that for a second. Your toaster today probably has a more advanced operating system than the …
Folks, we are presenting this piece to you as we stand on the forefront of a potential breakthrough. If you’ve happened to view the news in the last few days, you may have noticed that humanity has landed a probe on Comet 67P, discovered how to use the Internet to produce telepathy, and (per a Scottish distillery) recently returned a batch of whiskey …
