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Brett Morrison: From Building Online E-Commerce to SpaceX to a Voting System on Bitcoin for Truth in Elections
Dec 13, 2023
29:19
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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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- The podcast discusses the need for accessible and efficient voting through mobile phones, highlighting the potential of digital voting becoming the norm.
- TrueVote, an open-source platform utilizing Bitcoin technology, aims to provide transparent and secure voting, eliminating ambiguity and restoring trust in the election process.
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Importance of Voting on Mobile Phones
The podcast episode emphasizes the need for voting to be accessible and efficient by using mobile phones as a voting platform. The current voting systems are seen as inefficient and analog, and the speaker argues that since people already do everything else on their phones, voting should be no exception. The speaker envisions a future where voting digitally becomes the norm, and questions the scalability of the current systems in a world with a larger population. The goal is to bring convenience and confidence to elections, and the use of Bitcoin is seen as a way to ensure the integrity of the process.
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