>>10312727 USPS patents a blockchain based mail in voting system despite president trumps critics (notable from pb)
Alright, the boomers are mostly asleep by now so hopefully now we can talk about blockchain without all of their drooling and screeching.
Blockchain has wide-ranging uses. Most of you think of Bitcoin when you think of Blockchain and while Bitcoin is much more valuable than many here and in places like this seem to realize (with few exceptions), commerce is one single area which can be innovated with Blockchain.
There's some serious words to be said about all of the different things Blockchain can do, but in this discussion we may want to focus on why it's applicable. Before we do that, here's a short list; Insurance as a whole, Healthcare, Education, Commerce, Banking, Information Exchange as a whole and much, much more. From certifying authenticity of Art or Academic documents to facilitating subscription-based payments, Blockchain's uses range much more widely than plenty generally acknowledge or accept.
In this case, however, we should focus on the pertinent issue - Governance. This isn't to be confused with the concept of Governance as it relates more locally to crypto or the Blockchain world, rather we're talking about actual societal governments. You should check out the links below:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44421-5_20
https://www.mdpi.com/2199-8531/4/1/7
We can easily speak much more about this and we can extrapolate much further about all of the use cases, but just for a moment we need to consider the obscure boundaries of such a technology. Blockchain as a whole isn't just in its infancy, it's still nearly unrealized by anyone.
For the record, there's a great deal more than just an abundance of value in the economic world of crypto. Make no mistake, I'm not speaking on behalf while not being invested in it. However, I don't care to tell you what I've invested in. I'm not here to profit off of anything. I come here to converse with keen minds and experience your end of things, anons. If I wanted to profit off of you, I would tell you what I want you to invest in. Alas, I'll avoid it; I know better than to even tread down that road with any of you.
But, for the sake of the conversation arising organically, I'd like to urge you lot to take another look. Again, there's much more to Blockchain than cryptocurrencies, which I'm sure plenty of you have heard of at this point. While I don't think there's significant drawbacks like plenty of anons have suggested before around here, I think we need to take a closer look at the value of Blockchain as a whole.
Of course, it's always possible POTUS could be using reverse psychology. He's evidently a fan of bait and switch, so that shouldn't surprise any of us if that was his angle all along.
Maybe he wanted to nudge USPS toward the option to further secure the election. You'll remember, a key point of Blockchain is its immutable, decentralized ledger. This is the reason /ourguys/ were able to spot the foul play within the Bitcoin ledger, this is what makes it useful for things like authentication or other sorts of government-oriented protocols.
Anons, you mustn't pass this up. Do yourselves a favor and dive deep in to the Blockchain world. You will not regret it.
Oh and, as a final note, I do not endorse the Ripple guys that come here and shill the project, making wild claims about how it will be attached to the new "US Dollar". I do not share these views and am weary of anyone who brings up any specific project around here, just as I believe you should be. 1