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Russia’s Supreme Court Makes ‘Landmark’ Vote With Blockchain System from Kapersky Lab
12.6.2020
The court for the first time used a blockchain-based system to record votes in a web-hosted plenary session Friday
Maker Soars Higher on Exchange Listing, Successful Community Vote
10.6.2020
The popular decentralized finance (DeFi) project Maker (MKR) is seeing strong gains in the crypto market today, after a community vote showed support for expanding the range of collateral assets on the platform, and crypto exchange Coinbase Pro appears to have changed its mind about the token.
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MakerDAO Up By 30% After Vote For ‘Real-World’ Loan Collateral
10.6.2020
MKR is up 30% in 24 hours following the MakerDAO community’s vote in favor of introducing tokenized “real-world” assets as collateral for Dai loans
Ruling Russian Party’s Blockchain Vote Attacked, Bitcoin 401k + More News
26.5.2020
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United Russia, Russia’s ruling political party, which has been using blockchain-powered voting for its primary...
Block.one Will Now Vote for EOS Candidates, But Wants Their Locations First
21.5.2020
Block.one has issued its own set of criteria to use when voting for EOS block producers, perhaps controversially including where they are based
Binance Announces 8th Round of ‘Binance Community Coin Vote’
28.4.2020
Crypto exchange Binance announced the 8th round of the ‘Binance Community Vote’ on Monday. The community will vote in Round 8 to choose between SWFT Coin (SWFTC) and Chromia (CHR). As per the official post on the Binance website, the voting will go live for 24 hours, starting at 4:00 am on May...
Block.one Will Vote With Its EOS in Clear Break From Previous Cautiousness
9.4.2020
Block.one announced it will use its stake of almost 10% of the EOS network to influence block producer voting
Major Crypto Player-Backed PAC to use Tokens to ‘Vote’ for Candidates
24.3.2020
Leaders at Gemini, Coinbase, and Polychain are all founding donors of the PAC seeking to utilize crypto for campaign contributions
Zcash Reward-Distribution Vote Questioned as Only a Small Sample Took Part
22.3.2020
Zcash will continue to fund its development with a fee imposed on mining, but was this really decided by the community?
Devs Debate Using USDC for Collateral After DAI Stablecoin Faces Liquidity Issues
18.3.2020
Since March 12, the Makerdao community has been struggling with the stablecoin DAI which has been over $4 million undercollaterized since the crypto market carnage started. On March 18, the developers plan to auction newly minted maker (MKR) tokens in order to remove the outstanding debt. However...
MakerDAO Community to Vote on Upgrades, Conduct Debt Auction
13.3.2020
For the first time, MKR tokens will be minted and auctioned for DAI to repay outstanding debts that failed as a result of the recent crypto market meltdown
Steem Community Mobilizes Popular Vote in Battle With Justin Sun
3.3.2020
The Steem community is striking back after an attempted end-around by Tron founder Justin Sun
Binance Reverses Vote in Apparent Steem Takeover, Steemit Comms Head Resigns
3.3.2020
An apparent takeover of the Steem blockchain drew widespread criticism from the crypto community, and prompted the resignation of Steemit’s head of communications
EOSIO 2.0 Released but Vote-Buying and Centralization Concerns Persist
2.3.2020
Will the reduction in the EOS inflation rate lead to the emergence of greater decentralization in the blockchain network?
On EOS Blockchain, Vote Buying Is Business as Usual
24.2.2020
Buying votes is a big no-no in traditional democracies, but on the world’s eighth-largest blockchain it’s become an accepted way of doing business
Tron Community in Uproar as Genesis Coins Used in Super Reps Vote
19.2.2020
Tron (TRX) rocked by controversy after the coin’s origin address was used to vote in self-serving Super Representatives
BCH Funding Debate: Btc.top Founder Suggests 2/3 Hash Vote and 6-Month Evaluation
17.2.2020
Over the last few days, Bitcoin Cash proponents have been debating the Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) after Bitcoin ABC published an announcement on implementing the plan into the upcoming software release. Again the concept was met with mixed responses and the community has been arguing about...
India’s Citizens Will Vote With Blockchain, Election Commissioner Says
17.2.2020
Indian electoral officials are working on a blockchain-based voting system to increase voter participation
India’s Election Commission Developing Blockchain System for Voting
16.2.2020
The Election Commission of India is collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology to develop a blockchain system for voting, the Chief Election Commissioner has reportedly revealed. The new system aims to allow Indians to vote even when they are away from their hometowns. Furthermore,...
5% of Block Rewards – Bitcoin ABC Will Add Infrastructure Funding Plan in Next Release
15.2.2020
Bitcoin ABC developers published a blog post on Saturday which discusses the miner Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) and the team told the community the software engineers have been “requested” to implement IFP. According to the developers, the code for IFP will be implemented in...