Let me just float this one in the air and see if it has some merit.
Imagine if Darkcoin could be used by governments for local, regional and eventually national voting in political elections.
Stick with me for a bit.
Voting costs a lot of money. There is a lot of administration.
Voting has to be fair, anonymous and foolproof.
Which bit of the above, so far, doesn't fit DarkSend?.
The hashing algo can provide a proof of voting. The administrators to an election can buy enough Darkcoins and sub-divided them into Duffs and issue them to registered voters. Registration includes setting up an online wallet, app., etc. for voters. There are some security issues that need to be fleshed out, but that's detail.
Over a specified period, voters can send their duffs to the candidate of their choice. Those candidates would have addresses that can be counted up in minutes not hours or days. The voting process is known only to the administrators and the voters - but crucially, the administrators don't know who the voters voted for, just that their Duffs were spent (they can even spend them on booze and not vote).
The process would be so cheap to run by comparison to existing elections, you could have regional votes every month on this or that issue.
And Darkcoin investors? Well, we would be laughing all the way to the DarkBank
I think I'm going to put this one to a vote as a possible future roadmap suggestion, after we see if there are any flaws.
The only fundamental flaw I see is the futility of voting in the first place. If your vote was worth anything, you wouldn't be allowed one. Imagine if Darkcoin could be used by governments for local, regional and eventually national voting in political elections.
Stick with me for a bit.
Voting costs a lot of money. There is a lot of administration.
Voting has to be fair, anonymous and foolproof.
Which bit of the above, so far, doesn't fit DarkSend?.
The hashing algo can provide a proof of voting. The administrators to an election can buy enough Darkcoins and sub-divided them into Duffs and issue them to registered voters. Registration includes setting up an online wallet, app., etc. for voters. There are some security issues that need to be fleshed out, but that's detail.
Over a specified period, voters can send their duffs to the candidate of their choice. Those candidates would have addresses that can be counted up in minutes not hours or days. The voting process is known only to the administrators and the voters - but crucially, the administrators don't know who the voters voted for, just that their Duffs were spent (they can even spend them on booze and not vote).
The process would be so cheap to run by comparison to existing elections, you could have regional votes every month on this or that issue.
And Darkcoin investors? Well, we would be laughing all the way to the DarkBank
I think I'm going to put this one to a vote as a possible future roadmap suggestion, after we see if there are any flaws.
DS does fit the anonymity requirement nicely though.
Blue sky, I would take it 1 critical step further: each citizen is sent a tax bill, which they pay by sending however much they want up to the total required to wallets corresponding to healthcare, education, blowing up Muslims, sexier nurse uniforms, fixing the roads, whatever they actually want their tax money spent on. That would be a lot closer to the principle of democracy than simply electing some shitbag who ignores how you want your money spent and instead lines his/her own pockets with it.
"Government" then becomes (ideally) simply the transparent, accountable administration of funding the projects that the demos has specified and paid for.
The fundamental flaw I see is that it would get a lot easier to anonymously buy and sell the votes
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