Brett Morrison: From Building Online E-Commerce to SpaceX to a Voting System on Bitcoin for Truth in Elections

Dec 13, 2023

Computer scientist and technology entrepreneur, Brett Morrison, discusses the potential use of Bitcoin for secure and transparent voting systems. He shares his experience working at SpaceX and early exposure to Bitcoin. The podcast explores the technical implementation of using Bitcoin as a truth network for voting systems and the concept of creating a voting system on Bitcoin for elections. The discussion also touches on privacy, transparency, and scaling in a blockchain-based voting system.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

SpaceX Experience and Early Exposure to Bitcoin

03:30 • 4min

Podcast sponsors and introduction to the True Vote platform

07:07 • 4min

Using Bitcoin as a Truth Network for Voting Systems

10:56 • 6min

Creating a Voting System on Bitcoin for Elections

17:18 • 4min

Privacy, Transparency, and Scaling in a Blockchain-based Voting System

21:01 • 8min

Brett Morrison is a computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. He co-founded several companies, including Onestop Internet, a full-service e-commerce services company. Brett wrote the entire stack of software to run the front-facing e-commerce sites for popular apparel brands such as Lululemon, True Religion, Von Dutch, and many more during his 11 years at Onestop. The long-time Bitcoiner is laser-focused on bringing open-source election integrity to the world with his new company, TrueVote.

Follow Brett on X/Twitter https://twitter.com/morrisonbrett

Visit TrueVote: https://truevote.org; https://github.com/TrueVote

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